{"id":36977,"date":"2014-09-28T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36977"},"modified":"2016-10-24T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:13:07","slug":"black-legacies-race-and-the-european-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36977","title":{"rendered":"Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=RAMEY001\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\" target=\"_blank\">University Press of Florida<\/a><br \/>\n2014-09-02<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\n6&#215;9<br \/>\nCloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/lynnramey\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lynn T. Ramey<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of French<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=RAMEY001\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/jackets\/6007.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Black Legacies<\/em> looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Ages\" target=\"_blank\">Middle Ages<\/a> were foundational in the western concept of race.<\/p>\n<p>Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey show that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as &#8220;evil&#8221; and white as &#8220;good.&#8221; Ramey demonstrates that fears of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> show up in all medieval European societies. \u00a0She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of &#8220;monstrous peoples&#8221; to question the humanity of indigenous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World\" target=\"_blank\">New World<\/a> populations, and how medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is portrayed in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6&#215;9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,459,1196,8,17],"tags":[17673,17672,5799],"class_list":["post-36977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-lynn-ramey","tag-lynn-t-ramey","tag-university-press-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49590,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977\/revisions\/49590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}