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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The God-given Order of Nature | |
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| Carl von Linne, Homo in The System of Nature | |
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| The Geographical and Cultural Distribution of Mankind | |
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| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, A Natural History, General and Particular | |
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| "Negroes...naturally inferior to the whites" | |
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| David Hume, "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations" | |
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| "Of National Characters" | |
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| James Beattie, A Response to Hume | |
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| "This fellow was quite black...a clear proof that what he said was stupid" | |
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| Immanuel Kant, "On the Different Races of Man" | |
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| "On National Characteristics" | |
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| Physical Geography | |
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| The Kant-Herder Controversy | |
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| Immanuel Kant, Review of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind | |
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| Johann Gottfried Herder, "Organization of the Peoples of Africa" | |
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| The Degeneration of Races | |
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| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, "Degeneration of the Species" | |
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| Entries in the Encyclopedie and the Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| "Negre," from the Encyclopedie | |
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| "Negro," from Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| "The difference is fixed in nature" | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| "The race from which we are descended has been called Caucasian...the handsomest on earth" | |
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| Georges Leopold Cuvier, "Varieties of the Human Species" | |
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| Race, History, and Imperialism | |
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| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Geographical Basis of World History" | |
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| "Colonialism in the Internal Logic of Capitalist Modernity" | |
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| Index | |