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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2024
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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.

Weight: 470g
Dimension: 144 x 229 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674295452

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