ISBN:
9780674244269
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 303 Seiten
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Illustrationen, 1 Karte
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25 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Who’s black and why?
DDC:
305.8009409/033
Keywords:
Académie royale des sciences (France)
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Racism in anthropology History 18th century
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Scientific racism History 18th century
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Black race Color 18th century
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History
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Black race Color 18th century
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Public opinion
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History
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Europeans Attitudes 18th century
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History
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Racism
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Blackness Sources
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Reader
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Quelle
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Europa
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Schwarze
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Hautfarbe
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Rassentheorie
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Rassismus
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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"--
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Literaturangaben in Endnoten
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