Editors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran discuss their new book "Who's Black and Why?" with anthropologist Nina G. Jablonski.

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Join us for an evening with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, editors of the new collection Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin―an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism. The two editors are joined in conversation by biological anthropologist Nina G. Jablonski.