论人种平等

简介

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.

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• 实证哲学教程1830 · 奥古斯特·孔德

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• 人种不平等论1853 · 阿蒂尔·德·戈比诺