Enslavement & Eugenics
Rana Hogarth, author of “Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840,” will speak about anti-Black racism in the production of scientific knowledge in the early twentieth century.
Presenters
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Rana Hogarth
Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My first book, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), examines how white physicians defined blackness as a medically significant marker of difference in slave societies of the American Atlantic.
I am at work on my second book, which examines how myths about mixed-race people that emerged from slave societies in the Southern United States and the Caribbean informed eugenic era discourse.
Rana Hogarth
Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My first book, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), examines how white physicians defined blackness as a medically significant marker of difference in slave societies of the American Atlantic.
I am at work on my second book, which examines how myths about mixed-race people that emerged from slave societies in the Southern United States and the Caribbean informed eugenic era discourse.