The equality of human
races / [Joseph] Anténor Firmin ; translated by Asselin
Charles, with an introduction by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban. - New
York : Garland publishing Inc., 2000. - LIX-470 p. :
ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN 0-8153-3191-6
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DESCRIPTION : Equality of human races
is a pioneering work of early anthropology written in French
by a Haitian who is probably anthropology's first scholar of
African descent.
Firmin published De l'égalité
des races humaines in Paris in 1885 twenty years after the
« father of racism », Count Arthur de Gobineau,
published Essai sur l'inégalitié des races humaines.
De Gobineau's racist tome was translated into several languages
and influenced Nazi ideology, while Firmin's work became obscure
and marginal in the anthropoloical and scientific communitites
it sought to affect.
Equality of human races is far more than a response to Gobineau.
It is a substantial work of early anthropology that presaged
in the 19th century most of what became accepted by anthropological
science about race in the 20th century. It is also an early work
of Pan-Africanism that highlighted the civilizational achievements
of African cultures, from ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley countries
of Sudan and Ethiopia, to the first « Black Republic »
of Haiti, as evidence of the fundamental equality of African
peoples.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
- « De l'égalité
des races humaines », Paris : F. Pichon, 1885
- « De l'égalité
des races humaines », Port-au-Prince : Éd.
Panorama, 1963 ; Éd. Fardin, 1985
- « Equality of human
races » translated by Charles Asselin and introduced
by Carolyne Fluehr-Lobban, Urbana : University of Illinois
press, 2002
- « De l'égalité
des races humaines » introd. by Robert Bernasconi,
Bristol : Thoemmes press, 2003
- « De l'égalité
des races humaines » nlle éd. présentée
par Ghislaine Géloin, Paris : L'Harmattan, 2004
- « De
l'égalité des races humaines » éd.
présentée par Jean Métellus, Montréal :
Mémoire d'encrier, 2005
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