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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$6 – $32
About Who's Black and Why? In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of “blackness.” What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement asked. Sixteen essays, written in French and Latin, were ultimately dispatched […]
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