*Repost* Identity & the Environment in Pre-Modern Racecraft
An Interactive Workshop
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 441
*Repost* Identity & the Environment in Pre-Modern Racecraft – Online Event
Date & Time
March 11, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
This event was originally posted by the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor.
Molly Jones-Lewis, Senior Lecturer, Ancient Studies
The world before the
Atlantic slave trade was one of great diversity, cooperation, and
conflict where people negotiated complicated webs of identity and
belonging. It was also one with several models for race - a process of
categorizing people into groups with differing levels of inclusion and
exclusion. A particularly durable idea, present from the 6th century BCE
and dominant into the early modern period, is that of environmental
determinism: people are shaped by the land they inhabit and external
conditions create human difference. In this workshop, participants will
explore this early form of "scientific" racecraft and its legacy and
think through the ways we still map people into the landscape.
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