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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Jr. Gates Andrew S. Curran-Henry Louis
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Jr. Gates Andrew S. Curran-Henry Louis
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.
320 pages, 21 photos, 1 table
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 1, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674295452 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 144 × 25 mm · 366 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Curran, Andrew S. |
| Editor | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. |
