How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome
Scenes like this from Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1966) sit uneasily beside the idealized Rome so often invoked as a civilizational model—a tension at the heart of Curtis Dozier’s "The White Pedestal."
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How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome

In “The White Pedestal,” Vassar classics professor Curtis Dozier traces how the cultural prestige of Greece and Rome gets repurposed into a modern politics of hierarchy, exclusion, and “replacement.”
By Brian K. Mahoney •

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How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome
Scenes like this from Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1966) sit uneasily beside the idealized Rome so often invoked as a civilizational model—a tension at the heart of Curtis Dozier’s "The White Pedestal."
Community

How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome

In “The White Pedestal,” Vassar classics professor Curtis Dozier traces how the cultural prestige of Greece and Rome gets repurposed into a modern politics of hierarchy, exclusion, and “replacement.”
By Brian K. Mahoney •