'Queen Cleopatra' Netflix backlash frustrates show scholars - The Washington Post - 0 views
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those criticizing the docuseries are “applying our racial constructs to the ancient world, and that is anachronistic.”
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“With the exception of Jews, ethnicities weren’t really recorded in early Egyptian history,” he wrote. “In Alexandria especially, there was no normative race: genetic makeup was varied as people from across the region, from Europeans to Nubians, lived and married on its lands.”
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“anti-Blackness is the framework” for much of the discourse around Cleopatra and how she should be depicted.
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