 | Elaine Brown - 2003 - 404 strani
...partners with whites. "Comparing them by theit faculties of memory, reason, andimaginatlan, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reasou much inferlar, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprahending the... | |
 | David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 strani
...their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could...that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."33 Jefferson's theories of biological determinacy were based on careful observation and... | |
 | Bruce Sinclair - 2004 - 258 strani
...Virginia, published in 1781, Jefferson had argued the intellectual inferiority of the African, saying "one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid."19 Banneker, an ardent mathematician and astronomer, used his astronomical calculations to... | |
 | Loring Bullard - 2004 - 261 strani
..."Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me," wrote Jefferson, "that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior." He thought blacks were "dull, tasteless, and anomalous." Jefferson argued that it would be "right to... | |
 | Robert Jensen - 2005 - 124 strani
...the whites." • "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites;...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous." And then there is the question of sex. Jefferson believed in the "superior beauty" of whites, noting... | |
 | Michael A. Gomez - 2005 - 248 strani
...than reflection . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites;...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. . . . This unfortunate difference of colour, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Medina - 2006 - 568 strani
...written that "all men are created equal," made the following remark concerning Blacks: "[They are] ... in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely...tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid. ... In imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. . . . Never yet could I find that a Black... | |
 | Joe R. Feagin - 2006 - 388 strani
...human qualities: "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior. . . and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."24 Here we see the hoary stereotype... | |
 | Ezra Tawil - 2006 - 26 strani
...dismissive gesture towards Phillis Wheatley (140). Of mathematics, he mentions in passing that "one [black] could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid" (139). And as for genius, "in reason [they are] much inferior, ... in imagination they are dull, tasteless,... | |
 | Darryl Scriven - 2007 - 208 strani
...to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites;...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. . .They will astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory; such as prove their reason and... | |
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Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations... 
