ABSTRACT

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. The chapters in this book analyze apocalypse and racialization from several discursive and geopolitical spaces to shed light on the ubiquity and diversity of apocalyptic racial thought and its centrality to advancing political power objectives across linguistic and national borders in the early modern period.

By approaching race through apocalyptic discourse, this volume not only exposes connections between the pursuit of political power and apocalyptic thought, but also contributes to defining race across multiple areas of research in the early modern period, including colonialism, English and Hispanist studies, and religious studies.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

“All nations and kindreds”

chapter 1|54 pages

Apocalypse and Racial Assimilation in Spanish Colonial Texts

Motolinía, Mendieta, and Acosta

chapter 2|32 pages

Goths and Magog

Asserting and Disputing Spanish Global Supremacy in Spanish Ethnic Origin Myths and English Black Legend Polemic

chapter 3|37 pages

Making a Prophet

Greville, Sidney, Drake, and the Cultivation of English Colonial Supremacy

chapter |6 pages

Coda: The Legacy of Apocalyptic Racism