Who's Black and Why? : A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race.
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin-an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism. In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Who's Black and Why?
- Note on the Translations
- Part I
- Introduction: The 1741 Contest on the "Degeneration" of Black Skin and Hair
- 1. Blackness through the Power of God
- 2. Blackness through the Soul of the Father
- 3. Blackness through the Maternal Imagination
- 4. Blackness as a Moral Defect
- 5. Blackness as a Result of the Torrid Zone
- 6. Blackness as a Result of Divine Providence
- 7. Blackness as a Result of Heat and Humidity
- 8. Blackness as a Reversible Accident
- 9. Blackness as a Result of Hot Air and Darkened Blood
- 10. Blackness as a Result of a Darkened Humor
- 11. Blackness as a Result of Blood Flow
- 12. Blackness as an Extension of Optical Theory
- 13. Blackness as a Result of an Original Sickness
- 14. Blackness Degenerated
- 15. Blackness Classified
- 16. Blackness Dissected
- Part II
- Introduction: The 1772 Contest on "Preserving" Negroes
- 1. A Slave Ship Surgeon on the Crossing
- 2. A Parisian Humanitarian on the Slave Trade
- 3. Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux Apothecary, on the Crossing
- Select Chronology of the Representation of Africans and Race
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index