The anatomy of blackness
Curran, Andrew S.
The anatomy of blackness science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / [electronic resource] : Andrew S. Curran. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 310 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.
9781421402307 1421402300
Blacks in literature.
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Blacks--Race identity.
French literature--History.--19th century
French literature--History.--18th century
Africa--In literature.
Electronic books.
PQ265 / .C87 2011
840.9/352996
The anatomy of blackness science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / [electronic resource] : Andrew S. Curran. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 310 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.
9781421402307 1421402300
Blacks in literature.
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Blacks--Race identity.
French literature--History.--19th century
French literature--History.--18th century
Africa--In literature.
Electronic books.
PQ265 / .C87 2011
840.9/352996