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    Study days - History

    Du sang, des crânes et des gènes

    Science, savoirs et catégorisations raciales dans les mondes atlantiques contemporains (XIXe-XXe siècle)

    Depuis quelques années, la question raciale a suscité l’engouement des chercheurs dans le champ des études biomédicales, en génétique ou dans le domaine médico-légal. Leur attention s’est récemment portée sur la diffusion des tests génétiques permettant à un large public de retrouver la trace de ses ancêtres supposés, ou encore sur l’émergence des premiers médicaments dits racialisés. Ces travaux s’appuient, en général, sur une conception acritique de la race, entendue comme une notion sans historicité ni variations sémantiques. Néanmoins, comme le rappelaient les sociologues Michael Omi et Richard Winant dans leur travail séminal sur la formation de la théorie raciale, la race est un concept dynamique et mouvant qui s’est reconfiguré à la faveur de bouleversements sociaux ou de luttes politiques.

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  • Nantes

    Summer School - Early modern

    Freedoms and Slaveries in the Atlantic World (14th-20th c.)

    STARACO Summer University (STAtus, ‘Race’ and Colour in the Atlantic World from Antiquity to the Present)

    Today, bibliography on the phenomenon of slavery in the Atlantic is incredibly vast.  However, our research group on the definition of hierarchies of colours and of "races" cannot avoid addressing this subject. It is clear that the deportation of millions of African captives towards the Americas constituted the most powerful impetus for the racialisation of slavery, leading to the ‘natural’ representation according to which all slaves are black. This simple equation, however, covers over a complex historical process that this research conference seeks to analyze more closely. We must begin by ‘denaturalizing’ the concept of slavery. The term slavery, in fact, includes situations that are very different in time and space, which the various specialists in our research network will be able to compare. 

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