The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship

Authors

Patrice Rankine, University of RichmondFollow

DOI

10.1353/ajp.2019.0018

Abstract

Our discipline has always been at, its core, concerned with language. At its best, The American Journal of Philology has professed to being a forum for those seeking knowledge of the words and worlds of Greece and Rome. It is unreasonable, however, to disentangle the discipline of philology and its allied fields – art history, philosophy, archaeology, and so forth – from the modern realities of slavery, race, and their impacts well after global abolition, emancipation, and any declaration of a post-racial period. That is, we bring a great deal of cultural baggage to what we call the Classics.

Document Type

Post-print Article

Publication Date

2019

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2019 John Hopkins University Press. Article first published online: Summer 2019.

DOI: 10.1353/ajp.2019.0018.

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Full Citation:

Rankine, Patrice. “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship.” American Journal of Philology 140, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 345–359. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2019.0018.

Recommended Citation

Rankine, Patrice. “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship.” American Journal of Philology 140, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 345–59. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2019.0018.