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

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Publication information:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, eds. 2022. Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. Harvard University Press.

Abstract

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.