The Hamitic Hypothesis: Its Origin and Functions in Time Perspective, Edith R. Sanders' 1969 article in The Journal of African History, is the standard scholarly account tracing how a biblical reading of Genesis hardened into a racial theory and then into a colonial scheme of ethnic classification. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed article in a leading academic journal and remains a foundational citation on the subject. Its limit is that scholarship on the Hamitic hypothesis's specific colonial applications has continued to develop since, so a claim about a particular region's use of it may need supplementing.
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Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed article in the Journal of African History, a leading academic journal, the standard foundational citation on its subject. NotesThe standard account of how a reading of Genesis became a racial theory and then a scheme of colonial ethnic classification whose vocabulary outlived it.
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AuthorEdith R. Sanders
PublisherThe Journal of African History
Publication Year1969
Source TypeJournal article
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