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--. ''Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
--. ''Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks & The Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II''. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
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Part of the central thrust of Enlightenment thought was the idea of the essential nature of man. It was thought that if knowledge could be possessed, if society could be imagined, then man stood at the core of that achievement. Previous to this moment in Western conceptions of society, knowledge was considered the preserve of the Divine. Enlightenment presaged a secular authority for knowing. Knowledge was the way that humans could encounter reality. The logical extension of these notions was that whatever needed to be could be known and that reality could be measured.
Israel, Jonathan. ''A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Eze, Emmanuel, ed. ''Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader.'' Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Robinson, Cedric J. ''Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition''. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Schmidt, James, ed. ''What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth -Century Answers and Twentieth -Century Questions''. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Stanton, William. ''The Leopard’s Spots: Scientific Attitudes Toward Race in America, 1815-1859''. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, It’s Overrepresentration—An Argument.” ''CR: The New Centennial Review'' 3 (Fall 2003): 257-337.
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