The Race Makers
A History of the Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Legacy
$56.04
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2026
Summary
In the early eighteenth century, Christianity began to lose its hold on the story of humankind. Yet centuries of xenophobia, religious intolerance and emerging biological ideas did not simply disappear. Instead, secular thinkers reshaped them as they looked to redefine what it meant to be human. By century’s end, naturalists and philosophers had divided humankind into racial categories using methods associated with the Enlightenment era.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781908906632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1908906634 |
| Author: | Andrew S. Curran |
| Publisher: | Saqi Books |
| Imprint: | The Westbourne Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘[A] brilliant study … Curran concludes by spotlighting Black intellectuals of the era in a fascinating counter-history. A thorough and eminently readable dissection of a pernicious lie.’ * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *
Andrew S. Curran
Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. His work explores the intersections of race, science, and Enlightenment thought, and has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Time Magazine. He is the author of The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment; Who’s Black and Why? (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), nominated for an NAACP Image Award; and Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, named one of the best biographies of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, The Australian, and The Irish Times.
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