History & The Arts
What can philosophy tell us about race?
...sanguine, and muscular’. The Asian, ‘sallow, melancholic and stiff’. The African, ‘black, phlegmatic and lazy’. So these stereotypes have endured through the ages. TEXT ON SCREEN This was just the start of what came to be known as ‘race science’ – a discipline that emerged at the same time as colonialism and slavery. And that was no coincidence. SOPHIE...