Large Black populations in Greco-Roman society did not produce modern color prejudice

Evidence

[S]ocial intercourse did not give rise among the Greeks and Romans to the color prejudice of certain later western societies. The Greeks and Romans developed no doctrines of white superiority unsupported by facts or theoretical justifications for a color bar. … The presence of large numbers of Negroes in a white society, according to some modern views, gives rise to anti-Negro feeling. Ethiopians were far from rare sights in the Greco-Roman, particularly the Roman, world. Yet the intense color prejudice of the modern world was lacking. Although it is impossible to estimate the Negro element in the classical world in terms of precise statistics, it is obvious that the Black population in Greece and Italy was larger than has been generally realized. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 444 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I said just above that South Africa has a racist structure. Now I shall go farther and say that Europe has a racist structure. It is plain to see that M. Mannoni has no interest in this problem, for he says, “France is unquestionably one of the least racialist-minded countries in the world.” Be glad that you are French, my fine Negro friends, even if it is a little hard, for your counterparts in America are much worse off than you… . France is a racist country, for the myth of the bad nigger is part of the collective unconscious. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Greco-Roman antiquity developed no doctrines of white superiority; Greco-Roman societies lacked systematic color prejudice — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 444; Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338 (+5 more)

Related

• Greco-Roman societies lacked systematic color prejudice (similarity 0.94)
• Greco-Roman antiquity developed no doctrines of white superiority (similarity 0.91)
• Large Black populations in Rome did not produce color prejudice. (similarity 0.91)
• European race prejudice would persist even if blacks lived in metropolitan France (similarity 0.86)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.84)
• Conflict with Africans did not produce racial ideology in Rome. (similarity 0.83)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.82)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers (similarity 0.81)
• European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery (similarity 0.80)
• Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking (similarity 0.79)
• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination (similarity 0.79)
• Scholars conflate racism with color prejudice and deny European-on-European racism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Greco-Roman societies lacked systematic color prejudice #corroborates (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 444
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #contradicts (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Racism has no universal structure but only historically specific forms #corroborates (0.50)
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #corroborates (0.50)
• Origins of white response to blackness remain historically uncertain. #complicates (0.40)