The Atlantic slave trade
Subtitle: empire, Enlightenment, and the cult of the unthinking Negro
By: Charles Simon-Aaron ; with a foreword by Tamari Kitossa.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780773451971
Subjects: Black race; Racism -- Europe -- History; Racism -- Europe -- Philosophy; Enlightenment; Imperialism; Political science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A forensic investigation of the Enlightenment (philosophical) project of anti-African hatred; title: Class conflict and the state : the politics of Marxism; title: Towards a marxist politics; title: Anti-structuralism as anti-economism : towards the social relations of historical change; title: The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Alfred Cobban (1901-1968); title: The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Richard Ashcraft; title: The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Neal Wood and political theory; title: The poverty of philosophy; title: The English colonization of Ireland in the fifteenth century : the birth of English racism in Ireland and the English origin of early American racism; title: Production relations on eastern Mediterranean colonies; title: The social historical origins of the words Negroes, Black, Nigger, and white, whiteness, and white supremacy; title: The social-historical origin of the words white; title: Whiteness and white supremacy; title: The superstructure of anti-African hatred as consequence of European imperialism : biological determinism/scientific racism; title: Scientific racism as the science of white supremacy; title: The birth of racism in America; title: African immunity to disease; title: Pre-Darwinian scientific racism; title: Robert Knox; title: Louis Agassiz, 1807-1873; title: American polygeny and craniometry; title: Paul Broca, 1824-1880; title: Recapitulation; title: White supremacy as omnipotence : towards a psycho- political deconstruction of white supremacy with reference to political philosophy; title: Omnipotence : the quest for unlimited power : an infantile disorder; title: The social and historical genesis of the commodification of anti-African hatred and its consequences for institutionalized political philosophy in the western academy; title: Definition of a commodity; title: Romanticism and anti-african hatred; title: Germany; title: England; title: France; title: German history; title: The Gottengen legacy and the troublesome African presence in eighteenth-century European civil society and academy : the academic invention of anti-African hatred; title: The Gottingen legacy; title: Christianity, Egypt, Greece and Germany; title: Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : John Locke, philosopher of English imperialist; title: Colonialism, 1632-1704; title: Social and historical context; title: Empire of the world; title: John Locke : philosopher of English imperialist; title: Colonialism, 1632-1704; title: Locke's political theory; title: Locke's two treatises on government and its exposition of imperialistic anti-African hatred; title: Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : David Hume, 1711-1776; title: 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; title: Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : France : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778; title: Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-african hatred case studies : Germany : Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804; title: Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : Germany : G.E.F. Hegel, 1770-1831; title: Capitalism and slavery in the eighteenth century : sketches of evidence.