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Haley, Shelley P. "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." In Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. 27-49 Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.
Interrogates the uses of contemporary heuristics of race and racism in the study of ancient Greek sociocultural contexts, in order to excavate racializing intellectual structures among contemporary analysts of the past. To do so, the essay explores themes in somatic and affective markers in Roman literatures while charting contemporary interpretations of the same. The work engages conversations in the study of Roman literature and embodiment.
