Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:25:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Schubert <schubert-AT-dickinson.edu>
Subject: f on race


Hello,

	I don't know if this will be helpful to the person who asked about
F's thoughts on race, but Ivan Hannaford offers the following in _Race:
The History of an Idea in the West_ (1996, Johns Hopkins U. Press):

	"Michel Foucault, in _The History of Sexuality_, argues it is
unhistorical to consider that the antipathy between Greek and barbarian
presupposes a certain racial resentment.  To the ancients, blood is a
mystical object with a symbolic function.  Foucault sees racism not as a
political ideology but as a scientific ideology emerging in a much later
era and having very little to do with the Greeks."


Best,
Dan