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