Syllabus

Part 1: Taxa

Week 1: Introduction

Linnaeus. 1735. Homo in Systema Naturae
Aristotle, Book 1 of Politics

Week 2: Places and Natures

Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places
Ptolemy, excerpt from Geography
Galen, De Temperamentis

Week 3: Climate

Bodin, J. excerpts from 1566 Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem and 1576 Les Six livres de la République
Hegel, G.W.F. 1837. “The Nature of a State” in Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

Week 4: Civilization

Pope Nicholas V. 1452. Dum Diversas
Gobineau, A. 1853. The Inequality of Human Races.

Week 5: Fate

Bible, Genesis 9 (KJV)
Seligman, C. G. 1939. excerpts from The Races of Africa. London, Thornton Butterworth
Ibn Khaldun, 1377, excerpt from The Muqaddimah
Goldenberg, D. M. 1997. “The Curse of Ham: a Case of Rabbinic Racism?” in Jack Salzman and Cornel West, eds, Struggles in the Promised Land. Oxford University Press. pp 21-51

Part 2: Object Problems

Week 7: Skulls and Intelligence

Combe, G. 1843. excerpts from A System of Phrenology.
Morton, S.G. excerpts from 1839 Crania Americana, 1844 Crania Aegyptiaca
Tiedemann, F. 1836. On the Brain of the Negro, Compared with That of the European and the Orang-Outang. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (126): 497-527
Poskett, J. 2019. Introduction to Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920. University of Chicago Press.
Conklin, A. 2013. “Skulls on Display”, in In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950. Cornell University Press

Week 8: Bodies, Strength and Sexuality

Wilson, T., 1890. Anthropology at the Paris Exposition in 1889. Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1890.
Beddoe, J. 1861. On the Physical Characteristics of the Jews. Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 1:222-237
Kopernicki, I. 1871. Anatomico-Anthropological Observations upon the Body of a Negro. The Journal of Anthropology 1(3): 245-258
Hrdlicka, A. 1898. Physical Differences between White and Colored Children. American Anthropologist 11(11): 347-350
Qureshi, S. 2004. Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’. History of Science, 42(2):233-257.
Briggs. 2000. The race of hysteria: "Overcivilization" and the "savage" woman in late nineteenth-century obstetrics and gynecology. American Quarterly, 52(2):246-273.
Marriott, D. 1996. Bordering on: The black penis. Textual Practice 10(1):9-28

Week 9: Color, Evil and Sickness

Bible, Leviticus 13 (KJV)
Rush, B. 1799. Observations Intended to Favour a Supposition That the Black Color (As It Is Called) of the Negroes Is Derived from the Leprosy. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4: 289-297
Schamberg, J. F. 1899. The Nature of the Leprosy of the Bible: from a Medical and Biblical Point of View. The Biblical World 13(3): 162-169
Pastoureau, M. 2009. “In the Devil’s Color”, in Black: The History of a Color. Princeton University Press
Mitchel, D. & S. Snyder. 2003. The Eugenic Atlantic: race, disability, and the making of an international Eugenic science, 1800–1945. Disability and Society 18(7): 843-64
Bachrach, S. 2004. In the Name of Public Health — Nazi Racial Hygiene. New England Journal of Medicine 351(5): 417-420

Week 10: Appearance, Purity and Pollution

Royal Anthropological Institute, 1864. Miscegenation. The Anthropological Review 2(5): 116-121
Kristeva, J. 1982. “Approaching Abjection” in Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press
Sexton, J. 2003. The Consequences of Race Mixture. Social Identities 9(2): 241-275.
Morgan, J. L. 2018. Partus sequitur ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery. Small Axe 22 (1): 1–17
Edwards, J. 1999. “The Beginnings of a Scientific Theory of Race? Spain, 1450–1600” in Stillman Y. K. and N. A. Stillman, eds, From Iberia to Diaspora. Leiden: Brill
Burk, R. L. 2017. “Purity and Impurity of Blood in Early Modern Iberia”, in Muñoz-Basols, J., L. Lonsdale & M. Delgado (eds) The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. Routledge.
Villella, P. B. 2011. “Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico. Hispanic American Historical Review 91 (4): 633–663