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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.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Académie royale des sciences (France)
Racism in anthropology--Europe--History--18th century.
Scientific racism--Europe--History--18th century.
Black race--History--Europe--History--18th century.
Black race--History--Europe--Public opinion--History--18th century.
Europeans--History--History--18th century.
Racism--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Racism against Black people--Europe--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.
Curran, Andrew S., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface: Who is black and why? -- Part I. The 1741 essays on the "degeneration" of black skin and hair -- Introduction: Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Science and the 1741 contest on 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 -- Introduction: The 1772 essays 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.

ISBN:

0674244265
9780674244269

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1269098593

LCCN:

2021036013

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)