"The still current term #Caucasian connects directly to collective degradation, in the form of the gendered, eastern slave trade, via the network of learned societies that so deeply influenced the #historyOfScience in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

… wrote Nell Irvin #Painter about Johann Friedrich #Blumenbach, in a conference at #Yale on "Slavery and the Construction of #Race", 2003: https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/race/Painter.pdf
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#raceMaking: https://techhub.social/@breton@mstdn.social/109757511017045918

"The still current term
#Caucasian connects directly to collective degradation, in the form of the gendered, eastern slave trade, via the network of learned societies that so deeply influenced the #historyOfScience in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

… wrote Nell Irvin #Painter about Johann Friedrich #Blumenbach, in a conference at #Yale on "Slavery and the Construction of #Race", 2003: https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/race/Painter.pdf
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#raceMaking: https://techhub.social/@breton@mstdn.social/109757511017045918