Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking by Cord J. Whitaker

Middle Ages

Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking

Cord J. Whitaker

256 pages hardcover

3 editions

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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 ...

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