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Episode 88: Andrew S. Curran

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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Is There a Race in Africa?

race is really associated with the fact that europeans looked at blackness as a fundamental kind of strangeness and alterity. It also comes up from the fact that something really drastic happens in the seventeenth and eightenth century. And this is what you are talking about whenyo, it's so linked to the slave trade. Race would not have happened had people not been given the ability to distinguish between different skin tones.

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