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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., Edited by Andrew S. Curran





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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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Publisher | Harvard University Press
Published date | 22 Mar 2022
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Format | Digital (delivered electronically)
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-0-6742-7613-0
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