RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
Books in the RaceB4Race series focus on topics from antiquity to the eighteenth century and aim at enabling larger historical and theoretical narratives to emerge about the ways race has been constructed and operates in the literature, history, and culture of the global West and beyond.
Series Editors:
Geraldine Heng
Perceval Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Ayanna Thompson
Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Jenny Tan, Associate Editor
jennytan@upenn.edu
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The Other Faces of Arthur
Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512824889
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial...
Fictions of Consent
Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826272
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons.Despite...
Scripts of Blackness
Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826074
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging...
Bad Blood
Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822908
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Bad Blood explores representations of race in early modern English and Spanish literature, especially drama. It addresses two different forms of racial ideology: one concerned with racialized religious...
Learning to Talk Shop
Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826975
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplaceLearning to Talk Shop explores the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded...

The Other Faces of Arthur
Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512824889
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Fictions of Consent
Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826272
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Scripts of Blackness
Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826074
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Bad Blood
Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822908
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Learning to Talk Shop
Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826975
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages