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POLO BLANCO, Jorge. The Modernity of Racism Contrasted with Spanish Thought during the 16th Century. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2023, n.66, pp.421-459.  Epub 19-Jun-2023. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v660.2130.

The paper tests a simple but fascinating hypothesis, namely, that racism is a strictly modern reality. We will not find specifically racist theories before the eighteenth century. We also intend to establish a suggestive contrast with Spanish thought of the 16th century. The goal is to corroborate an issue that, perhaps, will amaze more than one: the verifiable circumstance that racism is absent in the doctrines of the jurists, moralists, theologians, and humanists (as well as early ethnologists) of imperial Spain in the 16th century.

Palabras llave : racism; modernity; Spanish thought; civilization; culture.

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