Racialized Commodities

Between c. 700-300 BCE, the ancient Greeks developed a vivid imaginary of the world's peoples. Ranging from the light-skinned, "e;gray-eyed Thracians"e; of the distant north to the "e;dark-skinned Ethiopians"e; of the far south, as the poet Xenophanes described them around 540 BCE, Greeks envisioned a world populated by human groups with distinct physiognomies. Racialized Commodities traces how Gr...