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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Description: In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press 2018), Geraldine Heng collects a remarkable array of medieval approaches to race that show the breadth and depth of the kinds of racial thinking in medieval society. In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.Throughout the study, Heng treats race-making as a repeating tendency to demarcate human...