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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.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice ©2022
Description1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations, map
Supplemental Content Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Académie royale des sciences (France)
Racism in anthropology--Europe --History --18th century.
Scientific racism--Europe --History --18th century.
Black race--Color --Europe --History --18th century.
Black race--Color --History --18th century.
Black race--Color --Europe --Public opinion --History --18th century.
Europeans--Attitudes --History --18th century.
Racism--France --Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Racism against Black people--Europe --History --18th century.
Black race--Color --Public opinion --History --18th century.
Other author/creatorGates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvmJXQ4ggYdVkg4HxjHmd
Other author/creatorCurran, Andrew S., editor.
Other author/creatorDalton, Karen C. C., 1948- translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjxFjFbdCDPgjFd4dPJGVC
Other author/creatorEmanuel, Susan, translator.
Contents The 1741 contest of the "degeneration" of Black skin and hair -- Blackness through the power of God -- Blackness through the soul of the Father -- Blackness through the maternal imagination -- Blackness as a moral defect -- Blackness as a result of the torrid zone -- Blackness as a result of divine providence -- Blackness as a result of heat and humidity -- Blackness as a reversible accident -- Blackness as a result of hot air and darkened blood -- Blackness as a result of a darkened humor -- Blackness as a result of blood flow -- Blackness as an extension of optical theory -- Blackness as a result of an original sickness -- Blackness degenerated -- Blackness classified -- Blackness dissected -- The 1772 contest on "preserving" Negroes -- A slave ship surgeon on the crossing -- A Parisian humanitarian on the slave trade -- Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux apothecary, on the crossing -- Select chronology of the representation of Africans and race
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. Also includes three essays from a 1772 contest seeking ideas to lessen diseases aboard slave ships"-- Provided by the publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index
LanguageTranslated into English from French and Latin. The French essays were translated by Karen C.C. Dalton and Susan Emanuel; the Latin essays were translated by Sheldon Cheek and Rosanna Giammanco
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from title screen (viewed April 1, 2022)
Issued in other formPrint version: Who's Black and why? Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022 9780674244269
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9780674276130 electronic book
ISBN0674276132 electronic book
ISBN9780674276123 PDF
ISBN0674276124 PDF
ISBNhardcover
ISBNhardcover
Standard identifier# 40031006363
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