i mean idk maybe i think human nature is malleable and all so i dont want to put it in those terms but yeah something like that, it definitely predates and supersedes any particular economic system
Race as we understand ita biological taxonomy that turns physical difference into relations of dominationis a product of the Enlightenment. Racism as we understand it now, as a socio-political order based on the permanent hierarchy of particular groups, developed as an attempt to resolve the fundamental contradiction between professing liberty and upholding slavery. ... To say that race and racism are products of the Enlightenment is not to say that humans never held slaves or otherwise classified each other prior to the 18th century. Recent scholarship shows how proto- and early forms of modern race thinking (you could call them racialism) existed in medieval Europe, with near-modern forms taking shape in the 15th and 16th centuries. In Spain, for example, we see the turn from anti-Judaism to anti-Semitism, where Jewish ancestry itself was grounds for suspicion, versus Jewish practice. And as historian George Fredrickson notes in Racism: A Short History, the prejudice and discrimination directed at the Irish on one side of Europe and certain Slavic peoples on the other foreshadowed the dichotomy between civilization and savagery that would characterize imperial expansion beyond the European continent. One can find nascent forms of all of these ideas in antiquityindeed, early modern thinkers drew from all of these sources to build our notion of race.
But it took the scientific thought of the Enlightenment to create an enduring racial taxonomy and the color-coded, white-over-black ideology with which we are familiar. This project, undertaken by the leading thinkers of the time, involved the setting aside of the metaphysical and theological scheme of things for a more logical description and classification that ordered humankind in terms of physiological and mental criteria based on observable facts and tested evidence, as historian Ivan Hannaford wrote in Race: The History of an Idea in the West.
How can capitalism be the source of "race" when capitalism is at least as old as the Roman Republic? https://www.jstor.org/stable/590734 ---
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