{"id":30063,"date":"2013-04-02T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30063"},"modified":"2013-04-02T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:17:00","slug":"the-equality-of-the-human-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30063","title":{"rendered":"The Equality of the Human Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/25txk3ry9780252071027.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Equality of the Human Races<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Illinois Press<\/a><br \/>\n2002 (First published in 1885)<br \/>\n536 pages<br \/>\n5.5 x 8 in.<br \/>\n6 black &amp; white photographs, 12 tables<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07102-7<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ant%C3%A9nor_Firmin\" target=\"_blank\">Ant\u00e9nor Firmin<\/a><\/strong> (1850-1911)<\/p>\n<p>Translated from the French by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asselin Charles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ric.edu\/anthropology\/faculty_Details.php?id=9214\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Rhode Island College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/25txk3ry9780252071027.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/images\/9780252071027_lg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Positivist Anthropology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Ant\u00e9nor Firmin&#8217;s <em>The Equality of the Human Races (<em>De l&#8217;\u00c9galit\u00e9 des Races Humaines)<\/em><\/em>, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was just emerging as a specialized field of study.<\/p>\n<p>Marginalized for its &#8220;radical&#8221; position that the human races were equal, Firmin&#8217;s lucid and persuasive treatise was decades ahead of its time. Arguing that the equality of the races could be demonstrated through a positivist scientific approach, Firmin challenged racist writings and the dominant views of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Asselin Charles and framed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban&#8217;s substantial introduction, this rediscovered text is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equality of the Human Races University of Illinois Press 2002 (First published in 1885) 536 pages 5.5 x 8 in. 6 black &amp; white photographs, 12 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07102-7 Ant\u00e9nor Firmin (1850-1911) Translated from the French by: Asselin Charles Introduction by: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Rhode Island College Positivist Anthropology This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,8,17],"tags":[14260,14264,14265,1111],"class_list":["post-30063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-antenor-firmin","tag-asselin-charles","tag-carolyn-fluehr-lobban","tag-university-of-illinois-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}