The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire, Enlightenment, and the Cult of the Unthinking NegroThis work explores the interrelationship betv.:een the institutionalized political philosophical construction and reproduction of European anti-African hatred within the Westem Academy and the birth and reproduction of European imperialism. Both projects grounded a part of their ideological foundation in the cultivation and reproduction of the myth of the 'unthinking African.. |
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Contents
A Forensic Investigation of the Enlightenment | 15 |
The Politics of Marxism | 31 |
Towards | 57 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire, Enlightenment, and the Cult of the Unthinking Negro |
| Author | Charles Simon-Aaron |
| Publisher | Edwin Mellen Press, 2008 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 27, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0773451978, 9780773451971 |
| Length | 664 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Political Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
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