The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment

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...

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Main Author: Curran, Andrew S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Black people in literature.
Travel writing > History and criticism.
Black people > Race identity.
French literature > 19th century > History.
French literature > 18th century > History.
Africa > In literature.
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