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LEADER: 04432nam a22003138a 4500
001 2008013527
003 DLC
005 20080404144817.0
008 080324s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008013527
020 $a9780773451971 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0773451978 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae------
050 00 $aHT1581$b.S56 2008
082 00 $a305.80094$222
100 1 $aSimon-Aaron, Charles.
245 14 $aThe Atlantic slave trade :$bempire, Enlightenment, and the cult of the unthinking Negro /$cCharles Simon-Aaron ; with a foreword by Tamari Kitossa.
260 $aLewiston, NY :$bEdwin Mellen Press,$c2008.
263 $a0805
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA forensic investigation of the Enlightenment (philosophical) project of anti-African hatred -- Class conflict and the state : the politics of Marxism -- Towards a marxist politics -- Anti-structuralism as anti-economism : towards the social relations of historical change -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Alfred Cobban (1901-1968) -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Richard Ashcraft -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Neal Wood and political theory -- The poverty of philosophy -- The English colonization of Ireland in the fifteenth century : the birth of English racism in Ireland and the English origin of early American racism -- Production relations on eastern Mediterranean colonies -- The social historical origins of the words Negroes, Black, Nigger, and white, whiteness, and white supremacy -- The social-historical origin of the words white -- Whiteness and white supremacy -- The superstructure of anti-African hatred as consequence of European imperialism : biological determinism/scientific racism -- Scientific racism as the science of white supremacy -- The birth of racism in America -- African immunity to disease -- Pre-Darwinian scientific racism -- Robert Knox -- Louis Agassiz, 1807-1873 -- American polygeny and craniometry -- Paul Broca, 1824-1880 -- Recapitulation -- White supremacy as omnipotence : towards a psycho- political deconstruction of white supremacy with reference to political philosophy -- Omnipotence : the quest for unlimited power : an infantile disorder -- The social and historical genesis of the commodification of anti-African hatred and its consequences for institutionalized political philosophy in the western academy -- Definition of a commodity -- Romanticism and anti-african hatred -- Germany -- England -- France -- German history -- The Gottengen legacy and the troublesome African presence in eighteenth-century European civil society and academy : the academic invention of anti-African hatred -- The Gottingen legacy -- Christianity, Egypt, Greece and Germany -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : John Locke, philosopher of English imperialist -- Colonialism, 1632-1704 -- Social and historical context -- Empire of the world -- John Locke : philosopher of English imperialist -- Colonialism, 1632-1704 -- Locke's political theory -- Locke's two treatises on government and its exposition of imperialistic anti-African hatred -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : David Hume, 1711-1776 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : France : Charles Louis Desecondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, 1689-1755 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : France : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-african hatred case studies : Germany : Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : Germany : G.E.F. Hegel, 1770-1831 -- Capitalism and slavery in the eighteenth century : sketches of evidence.
650 0 $aBlack race.
650 0 $aRacism$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aRacism$zEurope$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aEnlightenment.
650 0 $aImperialism.
650 0 $aPolitical science$xHistory.