The Anatomy of Blackness: Science & Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences, describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era¿s understanding of black Africans, and charts the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4214-0965-8
- EAN: 9781421409658
- Produktnummer: 23126573
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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