Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Mystery_Gift_Guide welcomes him as a coconspirator

welcomes him as a coconspirator who can ease her volatile mother’s terrifying moods

Brunson's wryly observant POV helped cement her status in the comedy world at large

Dupont Circle

turns up dead

the Gita is not what it seems – it’s not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history

Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Mystery_Gift_Guide welcomes him as a coconspiratorA fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism. Publishers Weekly The eighteenth century essays published for the first time in Whos Black and Why? contain a world of ideastheories, inventions, and fantasiesabout what blackness is, and what it means. To read them is to witness European intellectuals, in the age of the Atlantic slave trade, struggling, one after another, to justify atrocity. Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A