Penn State News Q&A with Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures faculty members Bettina Brandt and Daniel L. Purdy on their co-edited book, Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories (Oxford University Press).
Please check out this recent Penn State News Q&A with Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures faculty members Bettina Brandt and Daniel L. Purdy on their co-edited book, Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories (Oxford University Press).
The book’s 11 essays came out of a 2022 College of the Liberal Arts-funded conference featuring a first-rate group of scholars examining the many ways theories about race posited by 18th century philosophers like Immanuel Kant influenced later forms of racism in the 19th and 20th centuries and even today.
