The anatomy of blackness

Andrew S. Curran

earliest edition we have, 2011 Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 328 pages

"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 fro...

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Anatomy of Blackness edition · 2013 · Johns Hopkins University Press · 328 pages · 9781421409658
The anatomy of blackness edition · 2011 · Johns Hopkins University Press · 310 pages · 9781421401508
Anatomy of Blackness edition · 2011 · Johns Hopkins University Press · 9781421402307

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