The Anatomy of Blackness : (Record no. 78081)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781421402307 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781421401508 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr10790451 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)923196809 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PQ265 .C87 2011 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 840.9/352996 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Curran, Andrew S. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Anatomy of Blackness : |
| Remainder of title | Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Baltimore : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2011. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tissue Samples in the Land of Conjecture -- Defining le Nègre -- The New Africanist Discourse after 1740 -- The Contexts of Representation -- Representing Africanist Discourse -- Anatomizing the History of Blackness -- 1 Paper Trails: Writing the African, 1450-1750 -- The Early Africanists: The Episodic and the Epic -- Rationalizing Africa -- The Birth of the Caribbean African -- Jean-Baptiste Labat -- Labat on Africa -- Processing the African Travelogue: Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages -- Rousseau's Afrique -- 2 Sameness and Science, 1730-1750 -- The Origin of Shared Origins -- Toward a "Scientific" Monogenesis -- Historicizing the Human in an Era of Empiricism: The Role of the Albino -- Creating the Blafard -- Buffonian Monogenesis: The Nègre as Same -- Blackness Qualified: Breaking down the Nègre -- The Colonial African and the Rare Buffonian Je -- 3 The Problem of Difference: Philosophes and the Processing of African "Ethnography," 1750-1775 -- The "Symptoms" of Blackness: Africanist "Facts," 1750-1770 -- Montesquieu and the "Refutation" of Difference -- The Nagging Context of Montesquieu's Antislavery Diatribe -- Voltaire: The Philosophe as Essentialist -- Voltaire and the Albino of 1744 -- Voltaire, the Nègre, and Human Merchandise -- Processing Africa and Africans in the Encyclopédie -- The Preternatural History of Black African Difference -- Teaching Degeneration: Valmont de Bomare's Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle -- 4 The Natural History of Slavery, 1770-1802 -- The Hardening of Climate Theory and the Birth of New Racial Categories circa 1770-1785 -- Toward a Human Biopolitics circa 1750-1770 -- The Politics of Slavery in the Encyclopédie -- Mercier and Saint-Lambert and the New Natural History. |
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| Formatted contents note | The Synchretism of the 1770s: Grappling with "Nature's Mistreatment" of the Nègre -- Anti-slavery Rhetoric in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes -- The Era of Negrophilia -- Epilogue: The Natural History of the Noir in an Age of Revolution -- Coda: Black Africans and the Enlightenment Legacy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Blacks in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Blacks--Race identity. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | French literature--18th century--History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | French literature--19th century--History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Travel writing--History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa--In literature. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Curran, Andrew S. |
| Title | The Anatomy of Blackness |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2011 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781421401508 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318738">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318738</a> |
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