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

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Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race - Gates, Henry Louis (Editor), and Curran, Andrew S (Editor)
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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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Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race 2024, Belknap Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674295452

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Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race 2022, Belknap Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674244269

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