The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire, Enlightenment, and the Cult of the Unthinking Negro

by Simon-aaron, Charles; Kitossa, Tamari

• ISBN13: 9780773451971
• ISBN10: 0773451978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
A Forensic Investigation of the Enlightenment (Philosophical) Project of Anti-African Hatred	p. 15
Class Conflict and the State: The Politics of Marxism	p. 31
Anti-Structuralism as Anti-Economism: Towards the Social Relations of Historical Change	p. 57
The Case for a Social Historical Analysis of Political Thought: Alfred Cobban (1901-1968)	p. 69
The Case for a Social Historical Analysis of Political Thought: Richard Ashcraft	p. 95
The Case for a Social Historical Analysis of Political Thought: Neal Wood and Political Theory	p. 115
The English Colonization of Ireland in the Fifteenth Century: The Birth of English Racism in Ireland and the English Origin of Early American Racism	p. 141
The Social Historical Origins of the Words Negroes, Black, Nigger; and White, Whiteness, and, White Supremacy	p. 171
The Superstructure of Anti-African Hatred as Consequence of European Imperialism: Biological Determinism/Scientific Racism	p. 191
Scientific Racism as the Science of White Supremacy	p. 223
White Supremacy as Omnipotence: Towards a Psycho- Political Deconstruction of White Supremacy with Reference to Political Philosophy	p. 265
The Social and Historical Genesis of the Commodification of Anti-African Hatred and Its Consequences for Institutionalized Political Philosophy in the Western Academy	p. 295
Romanticism and Anti-African Hatred	p. 325
The Gottengen Legacy and the Troublesome African Presence in Eighteenth-Century European Civil Society and Academy: The Academic Invention of Anti-African Hatred	p. 361
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	p. 387
Imperialism of the Mind: Western Political Philosophy and its Project of Anti-African Hatred Case Studies: England: David Hume (1711-1776)	p. 435
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)	p. 455
Imperialism of the Mind: Western Political Philosophy and its Project of Anti-African Hatred Case Studies: France: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)	p. 467
Imperialism of the Mind: Western Political Philosophy and its Project of Anti-African Hatred Case Studies: Germany: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)	p. 485
Imperialism of the Mind: Western Political Philosophy and its Project of Anti-African Hatred Case Studies: Germany: G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831)	p. 507
Capitalism and Slavery in the Eighteenth Century: Sketches of Evidence	p. 523
Conclusion	p. 543
Notes	p. 557
Bibliography	p. 645
Index	p. 659
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