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Who's black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,i1950- [Herausgeber] ; Curran, Andrew S. [Herausgeber]

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2022]

xvi, 303 Seiten : Illustrationen

Translated from the French and Latin

Includes bibliographical references and index.

978-0-674-24426-9

 

Europa  Hautfarbe  Schwarze  Rassentheorie  Rassismus  Geschichte 1739  f Aufsatzsammlung  

In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy