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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
9780674244269
0674244265
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 28, 2022
Bibliography
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.
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