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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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Who's Black and why?

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bibliography

Oclc number

1269098593

Responsibility statement

edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran

Sub title

a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race

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

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