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Class, A Premodern Critical Race Studies Casebook

This anthology examines the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in premodern classics from Virgil to Shakespeare.

Class, A Premodern Critical Race Studies Casebook provides a resource for scholars, teachers, graduate students, and anyone interested in premodern critical race studies. Connecting premodern texts with urgent contemporary questions, the authors consider intersectionality as a way of thinking about premodern and early modern class structures, and how these structures are inseparable from taxonomies of race, gender, and sexuality—that is, how no one taxonomy can exist without the others.


340 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2027

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction to Class: A Premodern Critical Race Studies Casebook by Margo Hendricks “He is None of the Prince’s Subjects”: Class inversions and policing vagrants in Much Ado About Nothing by Estevan Alemán Meliboeus the Farmer: Structures of identity in Vergil’s Eclogue 1 by Kate Wilson Property in Black Lives: Ottobah Cugoano and the roots of the critique of Racial Capitalism by Kerry Sinanan Fictions of Civility in the Early Modern World by Urvashi Chakravarty Chivalry, Conversion, and Race in the Otuel Romances by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes Africa, Britain, and Class in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain by Eduardo Ramos On Speaking to God and Hearing the Imams: Reflections on Du?a? and Class: The Meanings of Du?a? by Rani Guhloom “There are more queans in this town of their own making than of any man’s provoking”: Class and Class-making in The Roaring Girl by Mia Escott Class and Romance, An Epilogue to Race & Romance by Margo Hendricks

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