| Rashna B. Singh - 2004 - Страниц: 390
...well, were naturally inferior to whites. To support his theory, Hume makes this astonishing claim: "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, not even any individual eminent either in action or speculation" (Gates 1985,10). An example of the... | |
| Zillah Eisenstein - 2004 - Страниц: 264
...racialized standpoint of their day that Negroes were naturally inferior to whites. Hume states that there never was "a civilized nation of any other complexion than white". Kant believed that geography played a key role in deciphering racial meaning. In Physical Geography... | |
| Rudolph P. Byrd - 2005 - Страниц: 240
...on the intellectual capacities of persons of African descent: I am apt to suspect [emphasis added] the Negroes, and in general all the other species...complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in either action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturers amongst them, no artists, no sciences.... | |
| Sikata Banerjee - 2012 - Страниц: 194
...proponent of this view, claiming that "negroes and in general all other species of men . . . [are] naturally inferior to the whites. There never was...civilized nation of any other complexion than white" (quoted in Gould, 1981, p. 41). The century wore on and the Darwinian revolution introduced evolutionary... | |
| Kwame Botwe-Asamoah - 2005 - Страниц: 268
...Scottish philosopher, David Hume and the nineteenth century German philosopher, Georg Hegel. Hume writes: I am apt to suspect the Negroes and in general all the other species of men to be naturally inferior to whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than... | |
| Bart Schultz, Georgios Varouxakis - 2005 - Страниц: 278
...volume. 28. Mill, "The Negro Question," CW, XXI, 93. 29. Cf. David Hume, "Of national characters" (1748): "I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men . . . to Iie naturally inferior to the whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of any other... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - Страниц: 860
...as a sign of inferiority. The eminent Scottish philosopher David Hume declared as simple fact that "there never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white." Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish historian of the nineteenth century, carefully explained that in the divine... | |
| Susan McKinnon, Sydel Silverman - 2005 - Страниц: 341
...Hume popularized a concept of whiteness, which he believed differentiated civilized nations and "all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds)" (cited in Gates 1986: 10). In this usage, the concept of "species of men" is not directly equated with... | |
| Wisdom Tettey, Korbla P. Puplampu - 2005 - Страниц: 254
...philosopher David Hume agreed when he wrote that "I suspect that Negroes ... [are] naturally inferior to Whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than Whites" (cited in Goldberg 1993, 31-32). And the German philosopher Hegel probably did not hesitate... | |
| Lisa E. Farrington - 2005 - Страниц: 368
...believed that not only Africans, but "all other species of men" were inferior to whites. He insisted that "there never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white" and, despite historical evidence to the contrary, that Africans had produced no cultural artifacts... | |
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