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