estelle, 3 months ago

"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

#NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #EuropeanCulture #truth #supremacy #whiteSupremacy