EPISODE · Apr 7, 2021 · 58 MIN
The History of Race
from The Last Negroes at Harvard · host Kent Garrett
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages—metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed.
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Cord J. Whitaker, Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College, talks about his book titled BLACK METAPHORS: HOW MODERN RACISM EMERGED FROM MEDIEVAL RACE-THINKING
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