This volume presents a series of studies on literary, artistic, and political uses of classical antiquity in modern constructions of race, nation, and identity in the Black Atlantic. In the fraught dialogue between race and classics there emerged new classicisms, products of the diasporic chronotope defined by Paul Gilroy as originating in the violence of the Middle Passage. Contributions to the volume explore the work and thought of writers and artists circulating in the Black Atlantic, and their use of heterogeneous classicisms in representing their identities and experiences, and in critiquing hegemonic Eurocentric or racialized classicism. Ranging across anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone worlds, and coming from an array of disciplinary perspectives including historical and biographical approaches, literary studies, and visual arts, these essays join in the shared goal of examining past and present intersections between classicisms, race, gender, and social status.