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Tópicos (México)
Print version ISSN 0188-6649
Abstract
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 June 19, 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.
Keywords : racism; modernity; Spanish thought; civilization; culture.