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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Colorlines in Classical North Africa Anyway, Dr. Futo like many other Classicists make it clear that the so-called 'colorline' separating 'white' from 'black' did not begin "south of the Sahara" as many Euronuts would have everyone believe but began in the Mediterranean Sea. [/QUOTE]"Colorline" is not a word and "color line" strongly connotes racial segregation which did not apply to North Africa and the term "Classical North Africa" is also dubious. The word "Classical" strongly implies Greco-Roman but too vaguely. If the intent is "color lines in Greek and Roman colonies in North Africa" that should be spelled out Greek and Roman "Classical" writers described the color of certain ethnic groups but they did not have the two part categories "white people" and "black people" (similarly "whites" and "blacks") although you might find people described as black skinned A two part classification system did not exist in Classical writing. It's offensive to even read the the title "Colorlines in Classical North Africa" [QUOTE] Merriam-Webster Dictionary [b]color line[/b] noun variants US color line or British colour line pluralcolor lines : a set of societal or legal barriers that segregates people of color from white people (as by restricting social interaction or requiring separate facilities) and prevents people of color from exercising the same rights and accessing the same opportunities as white people —usually used with[i] the[/i] [i]His father … had grown up in California with Jackie Robinson, who broke the color line in Major League Baseball.[/i] —Maureen O'Donnell [/QUOTE] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Futo_Kennedy Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics, Women's and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University, and the Director of the Denison Museum.[1] Her research focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Classical Athens, Athenian tragedy, ancient immigration, ancient theories of race and ethnicity, and the reception of those theories in modern race science. Kennedy completed her BA in Classical Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and PhD at the Ohio State University in 2003, with a thesis entitled Athena/Athens on Stage: Athena in the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles _____________________ She titles a blog entry "Colorlines in Classical North Africa" and we are supposed to think this racial segregation, white vs black term "color line" was part of Greco-Roman culture and the rationalization is Futo- Kennedy's argument that Greeks and Romans, she claims, regarded all natives of Africa as "black people". Thus she is saying the ancient Egyptians were "black people" according to Greek and Roman authors and they had a white/black color line, the Mediterranean Sea [/QB][/QUOTE]
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