Who's Black and Why?
ISBN: 9780674244269
RM231.66
Publisher,Belknap Pr
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Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 303
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--
