Making men: Enlightenment ideas of racial engineering.
This essay suggests a colonial and Enlightenment genealogy for racial ideas more commonly associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nelson exposes unfulfilled pseudo-eugenic plans, focused on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, in which racial engineering through controlled "breeding" was seen as a solution to challenges to stability after the Seven Years' War.
Univ. of Texas, Austin, and Univ. of Cambridge, UK.
William Max
WM
Nelson
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