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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking Civil Rights sun-drenched art from Bea JacksonIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin whiteor at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Agesmetaphors that guided the development of notions of race in