Who's Black and Why? // A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. • ISBN 9780674295452
Who's Black and Why? // A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. • ISBN-13 9780674295452
ISBN-10 0674244265 • 2024
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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 for the best essay on the sources of "blackness." What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement asked.
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