The Atlantic slave trade empire, Enlightenment, and the cult of the unthinking Negro - Simon-Aaron, Charles (Mellen, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 645-657) and index
A forensic investigation of the Enlightenment (philosophical) project of anti-African hatred -- Class conflict and the state : the politics of Marxism -- Towards a marxist politics -- Anti-structuralism as anti-economism : towards the social relations of historical change -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Alfred Cobban (1901-1968) -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Richard Ashcraft -- The case for a social historical analysis of political thought : Neal Wood and political theory -- The poverty of philosophy -- The English colonization of Ireland in the fifteenth century : the birth of English racism in Ireland and the English origin of early American racism -- Production relations on eastern Mediterranean colonies -- The social historical origins of the words Negroes, Black, Nigger, and white, whiteness, and white supremacy -- The social-historical origin of the words white -- Whiteness and white supremacy --
The superstructure of anti-African hatred as consequence of European imperialism : biological determinism/scientific racism -- Scientific racism as the science of white supremacy -- The birth of racism in America -- African immunity to disease -- Pre-Darwinian scientific racism -- Robert Knox -- Louis Agassiz, 1807-1873 -- American polygeny and craniometry -- Paul Broca, 1824-1880 -- Recapitulation -- White supremacy as omnipotence : towards a psycho- political deconstruction of white supremacy with reference to political philosophy -- Omnipotence : the quest for unlimited power : an infantile disorder -- The social and historical genesis of the commodification of anti-African hatred and its consequences for institutionalized political philosophy in the western academy -- Definition of a commodity -- Romanticism and anti-african hatred -- Germany -- England -- France -- German history -- The Romantic movement --
The Gottengen legacy and the troublesome African presence in eighteenth-century European civil society and academy : the academic invention of anti-African hatred -- The Gottingen legacy -- Christianity, Egypt, Greece and Germany -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : John Locke, philosopher of English imperialist Colonialism, 1632-1704 -- Social and historical context -- Empire of the world -- John Locke : philosopher of English imperialist Colonialism, 1632-1704 -- Locke's political theory -- Locke's two treatises on government and its exposition of imperialistic anti-African hatred -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : England : David Hume, 1711-1776 --
Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : France : Charles Louis Desecondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, 1689-1755 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : France : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-african hatred case studies : Germany : Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 -- Imperialism of the mind : western political philosophy and its project of anti-African hatred case studies : Germany : G.E.F. Hegel, 1770-1831 -- Capitalism and slavery in the eighteenth century : sketches of evidence