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Who’s Black and Why? Ages 13 and up Rojas Contreras has written aIn 1739 Bordeauxs Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy. A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.Publishers WeeklyThe eighteenth century essays published for the