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ON THE ORIGIN OF RACISM IN AMERICA: Investigation into a Forgotten Collective Memory (Hard Copy)
| Author: | Dureau, Yona | |
| Year: | 2026 | |
| Pages: | 176 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1350-5 978-1-4955-1350-3 | |
| Price: | $159.95 | |
The title of this book is both a humorous homage to Toqueville's De la Démocratie en Amérique and a critical allusion to Buffon's Histoire naturelle, in which the latter attempted to find the origin of species and classified Africans in a particular category of apes. Indeed, in his analysis of the birth of democracy in America, Toqueville forgot to mention Africans, since in his worldview the new regime of the colonies did not include them. As for Buffon, he justified slavery by classifying Africans as creatures different from human. These two works have shaped our reading of American history, and the generations that followed these two authors and read them, attributed to the colonies an intrinsic racism stemming from simple skin color.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter I
A “Full World” and the Increase of Sanctions in 17th-Century United Kingdom
Chapter II Exile as an Alternative to Capital Punishment and the Development of Slavery of White Convicts
Chapter III
The Arrival of Black Slaves and the First Revolts Chapter IV
The Unbearable Legacy: the Intergenerational Psychological Transmission of Former White Slaves and the Invention of Racism Chapter V
The Unbearable Legacy: The Psychological Transmission of Descendants of Black Slaves Chapter VI
An Inter-Generational Psychological Transmission of the Betrayal of Black Slaves by White Slaves: Traces in American Civilization and History Chapter VII
The Unconscious Traces of Intergenerational Psychological Transmission - Diseases Contracted by the Black American Population: a Question Without a Social Answer from the NIH Conclusion
Bibliography
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Chapter I
A “Full World” and the Increase of Sanctions in 17th-Century United Kingdom
Chapter II Exile as an Alternative to Capital Punishment and the Development of Slavery of White Convicts
Chapter III
The Arrival of Black Slaves and the First Revolts Chapter IV
The Unbearable Legacy: the Intergenerational Psychological Transmission of Former White Slaves and the Invention of Racism Chapter V
The Unbearable Legacy: The Psychological Transmission of Descendants of Black Slaves Chapter VI
An Inter-Generational Psychological Transmission of the Betrayal of Black Slaves by White Slaves: Traces in American Civilization and History Chapter VII
The Unconscious Traces of Intergenerational Psychological Transmission - Diseases Contracted by the Black American Population: a Question Without a Social Answer from the NIH Conclusion
Bibliography
Exploded Illustrations From the Text