المساواة بين الأعراق البشرية (De l’égalité des races humaines)

مقدمة

Firmin published “The Equality of the Human Races” in Paris in 1885, a year after joining the Société d’anthropologie de Paris. The book of over 600 pages answers Gobineau’s Essay and the racial anthropology of Firmin’s colleagues with their own methods: it examines craniometry and racial classifications and finds them inconsistent, discusses the African origins of ancient Egyptian civilisation and uses the history of Haiti, the first state founded by formerly enslaved people, as evidence against the claim of Black inferiority. Its conclusion is that all human races are equal in capacity and that differences arise from history. Long ignored, the book was translated into English in 2000 and is now read as an early classic of critical anthropology and Africana thought.

اقرأ النص الكامل

• Wikisource (الفرنسية)
• Gallica
• Internet Archive

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الصلات

يستند إلى

• دروس في الفلسفة الوضعية (Cours de philosophie positive)1830 · أوغست كونت

ينتقد

• مقال عن عدم المساواة بين الأجناس البشرية1853 · آرثر دو غوبينو