How did the negative associations that many people harbor about black (as a skin color) and blackness (as a symbol) arise? How is it that blackness can connote both evil (darkness, dread, wickedness) and eroticsm (sensuality, sexual potency, allure)?
Robert E. Hood's unique and fascinatinit work probes the mythic roots of racial prejudice in Western attitudes toward color. With special attention to the history of ideas, but also to pictorial images and popular movements, Hood documents the inception and growth of the myth of black carnality, with its commingling of disdain and desire War and fascination
In tracing that vein from Graeco-Roman and biblical sources through signal moments in subsequent history, Hood shows how Christianity forged the key links between blackness, evil, sexuality, and magie.Â
He also tracks how Christendom has been a crurist besarer of ideas that sealed the fate of milliosis of Africans in the colonial era and that still figure prominently in subordination of blacks and in the disfiguring of American society.
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