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245 0 0 _aWho's Black and why? :
_ba hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race /
_cedited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran.
300 _axvi, 303 pages :
_billustrations, map ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface: Who is black and why? -- Part I. The 1741 essays on the "degeneration" of black skin and hair -- Introduction: Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Science and the 1741 contest on 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 -- Part II. The 1772 contest on "preserving" Negroes -- Introduction: The 1772 essays on "preserving" Negroes -- A slave ship surgeon on the crossing -- A Parisian humanitarian on the slave trade -- Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux apothecary, on the crossing.
520 _a"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"--
610 2 0 _aAcad�emie royale des sciences (France)
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650 0 _aRacism in anthropology
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_y18th century.
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650 0 _aScientific racism
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650 0 _aBlack race
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_y18th century.
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650 0 _aBlack race
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650 0 _aRacism against Black people
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650 0 _aBlack race
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650 0 _aBlack race
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700 1 _aGates, Henry Louis,
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700 1 _aCurran, Andrew S.
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