The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought

Enlightenment Thinkers Bequeathed A Paradoxical Legacy To The Modern World: They Expanded The Purview Of Equality While Simultaneously Inventing The Modern Concept Of Race. The Color Of Equality Makes Sense Of This Tension By Demonstrating That The Same Enlightenment Impulse—the Naturalization Of Humanity—underlay Both Of These Trends.