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.


Format Häftad Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2024-02-01 ISBN 9780674295452