Athenian and American Slaving Ideologies and Slave Stereotypes in Comparative Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorButler, Graham
dc.contributor.supervisorKron, John Geoffrey
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-08T18:29:05Z
dc.date.available2016-08-28T11:22:07Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-09-08
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Greek and Roman Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractMany contemporary classical scholars, such as Benjamin Isaac and Denise McCoskey, frame the ancient Athenian attitudes toward their slaves as akin to or the same as White American racism. In this thesis, I argue that Athenian literary representations of slaves, in comparative perspective, are actually only superficially similar to those constructed in White American literature. I survey ancient Greek comedy and tragedy’s representations of slaves and demonstrate that the genres’ slave stereotypes recognise that slaves share with citizens a common humanity. I survey White American literature from the antebellum and Jim Crow eras, and I establish that its stereotyping of Black slaves and freedmen dehumanises them through the construction of racial difference. I argue that this crucial difference between Athenian and White American representations of slaves indicates that the Athenian city-state’s social system did not feature racism as it is articulated by critical race theorists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Joe Feagin.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0294en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0591en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0579en_US
dc.description.proquestemailgbutler@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6674
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectslavesen_US
dc.subjectslaveryen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.subjectracismen_US
dc.subjectantebellum Americaen_US
dc.subjectancient Greeceen_US
dc.subjectideologyen_US
dc.subjectstereotypeen_US
dc.titleAthenian and American Slaving Ideologies and Slave Stereotypes in Comparative Perspectiveen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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