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Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race
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.
ISBN
9780674276130
0674276132
9780674276123
0674276124
9780674244269
0674244265
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations, map
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Translated into English from French and Latin. The French essays were translated by Karen C.C. Dalton and Susan Emanuel; the Latin essays were translated by Sheldon Cheek and Rosanna Giammanco.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed April 1, 2022).
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De Gruyter University Press eBook 2022.
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Print version: Who's Black and why? Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The 1741 contest of 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
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
Select chronology of the representation of Africans and race
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. Harvard University Press Complete 2022.
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