Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking Sand Hill Review Press ISBN13: 9780615220420

ISBN13: 9780615220420

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an American Academy of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature

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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking Sand Hill Review Press ISBN13: 9780615220420In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages metaphors that guided the development of notions of race