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Our next First Friday workshop will meet this Friday, December 4th from 2-3:30 PM and will be facilitated by graduate students Adrienne Atkins and Theodora Naqvi. This month we will focus on Martin Bernal’s Black Athena – a book which, both in the ideas it put forth and in their reception, revealed many assumptions about race in the ancient world – in order to think about how concepts of race, blackness, and whiteness inflect our study of the ancient world. Our discussion will be prompted by the following readings:

• McCoskey, Denise Eileen. “Black Athena, White Power: Are We Paying the Price for Classics’ Response to Bernal?” Eidolon, November 15, 2018. https://eidolon.pub/black-athena-white-power-6bd1899a46f2
• Rankine, Patrice D. “Black Apollo? Martin Bernal’s Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, volume iiii, and Why Race Still Matters” In African Athena: New Agendas, edited by Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K. Bhambra, and Tessa Roynon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. [Available through the Penn Libraries website]

All are welcome to attend! We hope to see you there!

Tiffany Nguyen
Danielle Perry
Molly Schaub
Rebecca Stuhr

--The First Fridays Planning Group

The First Friday series this year consists of structured conversations centered on the topics of race, racism, and anti-racism in Classical Studies, the university, and beyond. This series is hosted and organized by members of the Anti-Racism Working Group in Classical Studies.

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