Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Andrew S. Curran, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

Andrew S. Curran, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin—an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism. In 1739 Bordeaux’...

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