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Hendricks, Margo. "Race: A Renaissance Category?" In A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, edited by Michael Hattaway, 690-98. Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, 2003.
This chapter offers an overview of the philological history of the word “race” in English and discusses the Renaissance theory of “generation.” The article argues for the use of philology and Renaissance medicine rather than skin color to emphasize this concept's fluidity. This text engages with issues of medicine, genealogy, families, and socioeconomics in the early modern period.
