ISBN:
9780674244269
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 303 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
305.8009409033
Keywords:
Geschichte 1739
;
Hautfarbe
;
Schwarze
;
Rassentheorie
;
Rassismus
;
Europa
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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
Note:
Translated from the French and Latin
,
Includes bibliographical references and index.