Who’s Black and Why?
€22.90
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| ISBN | 9780674295452 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Price (excl. tax) | €21.60 |
| Tax | €1.30 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €22.90 |
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Product Description
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.