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Who's Black and Why? Paleontology as well as spotting theThe 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. In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of "blackness." What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the