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Title Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.8 WHO'S    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  305.8 WHO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8009 GATES    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  305.8 WHO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.8009 WHO'S    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials  305.8 WH    Missing
Description xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-290) and index.
Contents Preface: Who is black and why? -- Part I. Introduction: the 1741 contest on the "degeneration" of black 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 -- A slave ship surgeon on the crossing -- A Parisian humanitarian on the slave trade -- Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux apothecary, on the crossing.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Académie royale des sciences (France)
Racism in anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Scientific racism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Black race -- Color -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Black race -- Color -- Europe -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
Europeans -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century.
Racism -- France -- Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Racism against Black people -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Académie royale des sciences (France) (OCoLC)fst00558855
Black race -- Color. (OCoLC)fst00833753
Europeans -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00916821
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Racism in anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01086650
Scientific racism. (OCoLC)fst02028957
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
France -- Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) (OCoLC)fst01758553
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.
Curran, Andrew S., editor.
ISBN 9780674244269 hardcover
0674244265 hardcover
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