Classical Memories Modern Identities Series
Editors, Richard Armstrong and Paul Allen Miller
With cautious optimism, we hope the current anti-racism protests will provoke moves toward equity and justice. But how did we get to this moment? How can Classics help us process a historical and scholarly legacy of white supremacy? As a recent article stated, “Classics can and should be seen as a field with diverse origins and a rich history of contributions, interpretations, and reinterpretations by people of all races. It is not the heritage of one group of people to the exclusion of another, and it cannot be used to form the bedrock of a white supremacist ideology.” The editors of the Classical Memories/Modern Identities Series seek innovative scholarship that focuses on fully mapping out the racial complexities of the ancient world and how they relate to our time. We are looking for works that reflect on the contributions of African-Americans, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA), and other underrepresented groups in the field of Classics. We are also searching for works that investigate the archaeology of Classics as a discipline, the complexities and compromises of its formation and development, its appropriation by and for racist agendas, and its deployment as a tool of resistance.
The series is already dedicated to exploring how the classical world has been variously interpreted, transformed, and appropriated to forge a usable past and a livable present. Books published in this series detail both the positive and negative aspects of classical reception and take an expansive view of the topic. Thus it includes works that examine the function of translations, adaptations, invocations, and classical scholarship in personal, cultural, national, sexual, and racial formations. Please email Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno at the Ohio State University Press for more information.
Classics and Social Justice 
Hello, i’m a researcher from Chile and i’ve written about the topic of classics and ideas of race and eugenics. I’m currently writting my phd thesis in topics very related. My published work has been only in spanish though, but I can write in english.
My last article is this: “Griegos, latinos y germanos en algunos textos racistas y eugénicos de la primera mitad del siglo XX” (http://ojs.uc.cl/index.php/rhis/article/view/15352). Translation would be: “Greeks, latins and germanics in some racists and eugenics writtings of the first half of the XXth century”.
This is the abstract:
Regarding a corpus of chosen works published in Chile that belongs to the racist and eugenic in literature from the first half of the twentieth century, this article elaborates on the types of relationships these works established between Chileans and the people and civilizations of Western antiquity. Through the modalities of continuity, parallelism and canonical constitution, the article analyzes in detail the way in which authors such as Ni-colás Palacios, Luis Bisquertt, Sara Rojas and Hans Betzhold among others elaborated a link between their racial concerns and antiquity
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