Write me a 2500 word essay on the question –
What role has the Enlightenment played in the development of Western racial hierarchies,
colonialism, and practices of neocolonialism?
You must have at least 15 references in the Chicago or MHRA style and make sure to include a bibliography at the end of all the sources you have used. The readings/sources to use for this essay are below but you are more than welcome to use others as long as it is cited properly and mentioned in the bibliography.
Please make sure this essay gives context and thoughts at the time and in the modern period.
Readings:
– Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men (1754). Available in translation, please read pages 9-15 in this version: https://aub.edu.lb/fas/cvsp/Documents/DiscourseonInequality.pdf879500092.pdf
– Alain Beaulieu, ‘“Gradually Reclaiming Them from a State of Barbarism”: Emergence of and Ambivalence in the Aboriginal Civilisation Project in Canada (1815–1857)’ in Enlightened Colonialism: Civilisation Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason, Ed. Damien Tricoire (2017), p. 159-177.
– Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition (2015), Chapter 3: ‘An Unthinkable History’, p. 70-107.
– Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell, ‘Posterity Has Arrived: The Necessary Emergence of Museum Activism’ Museum Activism, Ed. Robert Janes (2019), p. 1-22.
-Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott, ‘Detoxing and decolonising museums,’ in Museum Activism, Ed. Robert Janes (2019), p. 25-36.