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Sarah Derbew

Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Sarah Derbew is an assistant professor of Classics at Stanford University. Her bookUntangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (forthcoming, June 2022) promotes a deep, plural history of blackness.

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Fragment of ancient pottery depicting a painted figure with an intricately detailed headdress on a black background.

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Blackness in antiquity

To truly see black people in ancient art we need to look beyond the historically recent trope of ‘Blackness = inferiority’

Sarah Derbew