Who’s Black and Why? An Interview with Andrew Curran

Théodore Géricault, Portrait Study for The Raft of the Medusa (1819). Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/7764352418

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Andrew Curran about his new anthology, prepared in collaboration with Henry Louis Gates, Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race and his book The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment.

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Iona Italia

Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.

Andrew S. Curran

Andrew Curran is the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment and, most recently, an edited edition, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr, entitled Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

Curran is a fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques. He lives in Connecticut where he is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University.