Joseph-Anténor Firmin

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Joseph-Anténor Firmin

Joseph-Anténor Firmin (* 1850 in Cap-Haïtien ; † 1911 ) was a Haitian anthropologist , journalist and politician. His best known work is De l'Égalité des Races Humaines , which is directed against the theories in Arthur de Gobineau 's Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines ( Essay on the inequality of human races ). Firmin does not deny the existence of the term race, but points out that the definitions in question are not clear and that the hierarchy of races is inadequately justified. He also emphasizes the value of the cultural achievements that have arisen on African soil.

Works

  • De l'Égalité des Races Humaines 1885
  • Haiti et la France 1891
  • Une Défense 1892
  • Diplomate et Diplomatie 1898
  • M. Roosevelt, President des Etats-Unis et la République d'Haïti 1905
  • Lettres de Saint-Thomas 1910

literature

  • Patricia Schutt-Ainé, Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture: Haiti: A Basic Reference Book . Librairie Au Service de la Culture, Miami, Florida 1994, ISBN 0-9638599-0-0 , p. 95.
  • Karin Sekora The way to Kem't. Intertextuality and discursive field in Aimé Césaires' Cahier d'un retour au pays natal , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2000 ISBN 3-8260-1673-4 (contains a meticulous search for traces of Césaire's struggle with Firmin's main work 'De l'égalité des races' , his anti-Gobineau)

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