Catherine Hall, "Making White and Black: Edward Long, slave-owner and historian of Jamaica" (5 juin)

Jeudi 5 juin à 17h, salle D223 à la Maison de la Recherche (28, rue Serpente, 75006 Paris) Catherine Hall (University College London) présentera son dernier ouvrage, Lucky Valley. Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Résumé : Why does Edward Long’s History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long’s History, that most ‘civilised’ of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history...