Curtis Dozier: The White Pedestal

The classicist and author presents his book “The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate,” a critical account of far-right appropriations of the classics.

Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success.

Curtis Dozier received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and has taught at Vassar College since then. He is an internationally recognized expert on how extremists and hate groups invoke Greco-Roman antiquity to promote their politics.

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