Who’s Black And Why?: A Hidden Chapter From The Eighteenth-Century Invention Of Race Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Theatre

“A Fascinating If Disturbing Window Onto The Origins Of Racism ”—Publishers Weekly“The Eighteenth-Century Essays Published For First Time In Who’s Black And Why? Contain A World Ideas—Theories Inventions Fantasies—About What Blackness Is It Means To Read Them Witness European Intellectuals Age Atlantic Slave Trade Struggling One After Another Justify Atrocity ”—Jill Lepore Author These Truths: History United Statesthe Translation Publication Sixteen Submissions Notorious Bordeaux Essay Contest On Cause Skin—An Indispensable Chronicle Rise Scientifically Based Anti-Black 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy Sciences Announced Best Sources “Blackness ” Physical African Hair Degeneration Announcement Asked Written French Latin Were Ultimately Dispatched From All Over Europe Authors Ranged Naturalists Physicians Theologians Amateur Savants Documented Each Page Are Ideas About Who Why Looming Behind Fact That Some Four Million Africans Had Been Kidnapped Shipped Across By Was Themselves Represent Broad Range Opinions Affirm Fallen God’s Grace Others Resulted Brutal Climate Still Emphasized Anatomical Specificity Nonetheless Circulate Around Common Theme: Search Scientific Understanding New Concept Race More Important They Provide An Record Enlightenment-Era Thinking Normalized Sale Enslavement Human Beings Never Previously Documents Survived Centuries Tucked Away Municipal Library Translated Into English Accompanied Detailed Introduction Headnotes Henry Louis Gates Jr Andrew Curran Included This Volume Lays Bare Colorism West Σελίδες: 320 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0322 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm