Umberto Grassi
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Umberto Grassi wrote a new post, Race and Sexuality, on the site SPACES: Sex, disPlacements, and cross-Cultural encounterS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
The importance of sexual stereotypes in the construction of the modern and contemporary racial rhetoric is well known. 19th- and 20th -century European colonialism required a form of ideological justification, and […]
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Umberto Grassi wrote a new post, Online seminar: The Fall from Grace, on the site SPACES: Sex, disPlacements, and cross-Cultural encounterS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
This is a recording of a seminar organized by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Centre for Historical Studies (Department of History, University of Maryland – College Park) where I discussed my Marie Skłodowska […]
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Umberto Grassi wrote a new post, An “Obscure” Object of Desire: Muslims in Spanish Homoerotic Sociability, on the site SPACES: Sex, disPlacements, and cross-Cultural encounterS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
We saw in the case of Hamete the extent to which Spanish secular and religious authorities used sexual transgressions to reinforce the boundaries dividing the Christian majority and the Muslim minority. Today we […]
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Umberto Grassi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
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Umberto Grassi wrote a new post, An Edifying Human Sacrifice, on the site SPACES: Sex, disPlacements, and cross-Cultural encounterS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Last post I dealt with some of the methodological problems raised by working on the history of sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective. Today, we will get our hands dirty with a case study, and see what […]
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Umberto Grassi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago