What is Race? Perspectives from Antiquity to the

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Present This course introduces students to ancient Greek and Roman ideas of race, ethnicity, and gender, to the intersections between these ideas in the thought and lived experience of ancient peoples, to how these ideas were used, remade, and redeployed in early modernity and afterward, and to the key role of the ancient Mediterranean in modern racist ideologies. Prereq: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.