Tag: Bordeaux

  • Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…

  • In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery.