Race and the Enlightenment : a reader /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Blackwell,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- The God-given order of nature / Carl von Linné, Hpmo in The system of nature
- The geographical and cultural distribution of mankind / Georges-Louis Leclerc, A natural history, general and particular
- "Negroes ... naturally inferior to the whites" / David Hume, "of the populousness of ancient nations", "of national characters" ; A response to Hume / James Beattie
- "This fellow was quite black ... a clear proof that what he said was stupid" / Immanuel Kant, "on the different races of man", "on national characteristics", from Physical geography
- The Kant-Herder controversy, Immanuel Kant, Review of Herder's Ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind ; "Organization of the peoples of Africa" / Johann Gottfied Herder
- The degeneration of races / Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, "Degeneration of the species"
- Entries in the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopaedia Britannica : "Négre," from the Encyclopédie, "Negro," from Encyclopaedia Britannica
- "The difference is fixed in nature" Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
- "The race from which we are descended has been called Caucasian ... the handsomest on earth" / Georges Léopold Cuvier, "varieties of the human species"
- Race, history, and imperialism / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Geographical basis of world history", "Colonialism in the internal logic of capitalist modernity".