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    Who’s black and why? : a hidden chapter from the Eighteenth-Century invention of race (2022)
    Cambridge : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674276130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Who's black and why?
    DDC: 305.8009409/033
    RVK:
    NN 4430
    Keywords: Académie royale des sciences (France) ; Racism in anthropology History 18th century ; Scientific racism History 18th century ; Black race Color 18th century ; History ; Black race Color 18th century ; Public opinion ; History ; Europeans Attitudes 18th century ; History ; Racism ; Electronic books ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Europa ; Schwarze ; Hautfarbe ; Rassentheorie ; Rassismus ; Geschichte 1739
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Who's Black and Why? -- Note on the Translations -- Part I -- Introduction: The 1741 Contest on the "Degeneration" of Black Skin and Hair -- 1. Blackness through the Power of God -- 2. Blackness through the Soul of the Father -- 3. Blackness through the Maternal Imagination -- 4. Blackness as a Moral Defect -- 5. Blackness as a Result of the Torrid Zone -- 6. Blackness as a Result of Divine Providence -- 7. Blackness as a Result of Heat and Humidity -- 8. Blackness as a Reversible Accident -- 9. Blackness as a Result of Hot Air and Darkened Blood -- 10. Blackness as a Result of a Darkened Humor -- 11. Blackness as a Result of Blood Flow -- 12. Blackness as an Extension of Optical Theory -- 13. Blackness as a Result of an Original Sickness -- 14. Blackness Degenerated -- 15. Blackness Classified -- 16. Blackness Dissected -- Part II -- Introduction: The 1772 Contest on "Preserving" Negroes -- 1. A Slave Ship Surgeon on the Crossing -- 2. A Parisian Humanitarian on the Slave Trade -- 3. Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux Apothecary, on the Crossing -- Select Chronology of the Representation of Africans and Race -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index.
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    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 2
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    The signifying monkey : a theory of African American literary criticism (2014)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
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    ISBN: 9780195136470
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXIII, [8], 318 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 25. anniversary edition
    DDC: 810.9/896073
    RVK:
    HR 1728
    RVK:
    LC 66610
    Keywords: American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; American literature African influences ; African Americans Intellectual life ; Mythology, African, in literature ; African Americans in literature ; Oral tradition ; African Americans Folklore ; Criticism
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  • 3
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    Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica (2009)
    New York [u.a.] : Harper Perennial
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    ISBN: 9780061695131 , 0061695130
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 311, 16 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
    Series Statement: Harper Perennial modern classics
    DDC: 299.675
    RVK:
    LB 46440
    RVK:
    HU 3930
    Keywords: Voodooism ; Voodooism ; Wodu ; Alltag ; Alltag ; Haiti Description and travel ; Jamaica Description and travel ; Haiti ; Haiti ; Jamaika ; Haiti ; Wodu ; Haiti ; Alltag ; Jamaika ; Alltag
    Description / Table of Contents: Pt. 1. Jamaica. The rooster's nest ; Curry goat ; Hunting the wild hog ; Night song after death ; Women in the Caribbean -- Pt. 2. Politics and personalities of Haiti. Rebirth of a nation ; The next hundred years ; The Black Joan of Arc ; Death of Leconte -- Pt. 3. Voodoo in Haiti. Voodoo and voodoo gods ; Isle de la Gonave ; Archahaie and what it means ; Zombies ; Secte rouge ; Parlay cheval ou (tell my horse) ; Graveyard dirt and other poisons ; Doctor Reser ; God and the Pintards.
    Note: Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, c 1938. This edition first published with updates: New York : Harper Perennial, 1990 , Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) , Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover. - Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, c 1938. This edition first published with updates: New York : Harper Perennial, 1990. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304)
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  • 4
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    Book
    Identities (1995)
    Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0226284387 , 0226284395
    Language: English
    Pages: 460 S , Ill , 23 cm
    DDC: 809/.93353
    RVK:
    MR 6800
    RVK:
    HU 1726
    RVK:
    MS 3450
    Keywords: Criticism ; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Identität
    Abstract: "British cannibals" : contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Race into culture : a critical genealogy of cultural identity / Walter Benn Michaels -- Occidentalism as counterdiscourse : "He Shang" in post-Mao China / Xiaomei Chen -- Fashion and the homospectatorial look / Diana Fuss -- Policing the black women's body in an urban context / Hazel V. Carby -- Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- Acting bit : identity talk / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The empire renarrated : Season of migration to the north and the reinvention of the present / Saree S. Makdisi -- What is a Muslim? : fundamental commitment and cultural identity / Akeel Bilgrami -- Nationalism and social division in black arts poetry of the 1960's / Philip Brian Harper -- Black writing, white reading : race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel -- The erotics of Irishness / Cheryl Herr -- Diaspora : generation and the ground of Jewish identity / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin -- The time of the Gypsies : a "people without history" in the narratives of the West / Katie Trumpener --White philosophy / Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield -- The no-drop rule / Walter Benn Michaels -- Fashionable theory and fashionable women : returning Fuss's homospectatorial look / Molly Anne Rothenberg and Joseph Valente -- Look who's talking, or if looks could kill / Diana Fuss -- Response to Identities / Michael Gorra -- Collected and fractured : response to Identities / Judith Butler
    Description / Table of Contents: "British cannibals" : contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Race into culture : a critical genealogy of cultural identity / Walter Benn Michaels -- Occidentalism as counterdiscourse : "He Shang" in post-Mao China / Xiaomei Chen -- Fashion and the homospectatorial look / Diana Fuss -- Policing the black women's body in an urban context / Hazel V. Carby -- Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- Acting bit : identity talk / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The empire renarrated : Season of migration to the north and the reinvention of the present / Saree S. Makdisi -- What is a Muslim? : fundamental commitment and cultural identity / Akeel Bilgrami -- Nationalism and social division in black arts poetry of the 1960's / Philip Brian Harper -- Black writing, white reading : race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel -- The erotics of Irishness / Cheryl Herr -- Diaspora : generation and the ground of Jewish identity / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin -- The time of the Gypsies : a "people without history" in the narratives of the West / Katie Trumpener --White philosophy / Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield -- The no-drop rule / Walter Benn Michaels -- Fashionable theory and fashionable women : returning Fuss's homospectatorial look / Molly Anne Rothenberg and Joseph Valente -- Look who's talking, or if looks could kill / Diana Fuss -- Response to Identities / Michael Gorra -- Collected and fractured : response to Identities / Judith Butler
    Note: The essays in this volume originally appeared in the journal Critical inquiry"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/95039956.html
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/95039956.html
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