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245 00 Who's Black and why? :|ba hidden chapter from the 
       eighteenth-century invention of race /|cedited by Henry 
       Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bThe Belknap Press of Harvard 
       University Press,|c2022. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xvi, 303 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-290) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by
       publisher. 
610 20 Académie royale des sciences (France) 
610 27 Académie royale des sciences (France)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00558855 
648  7 1700-1799|2fast 
650  0 Racism in anthropology|zEurope|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Scientific racism|zEurope|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Black race|xColor|zEurope|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Black race|xColor|zEurope|xPublic opinion|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  0 Europeans|xAttitudes|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Racism|zFrance|zBordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) 
650  0 Racism against Black people|zEurope|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  7 Black race|xColor.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00833753 
650  7 Europeans|xAttitudes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00916821 
650  7 Racism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086616 
650  7 Racism in anthropology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086650 
650  7 Scientific racism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst02028957 
651  7 Europe.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245064 
651  7 France|zBordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01758553 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
700 1  Gates, Henry Louis,|cJr.,|eeditor. 
700 1  Curran, Andrew S.,|eeditor. 
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