Aristotle’s racial hierarchy outlasted anticolonial critiques like Las Casas’s

Evidence

Las Casas’s ploy met, however, with only quite limited success in either his own time or later. His Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies was roundly denounced by his contemporaries and their successors. Aristotle’s “aristocracy of race” was proved to be much closer to the core of Western civilization than the complaints of Las Casas, his fellow priests Motolinia and de Landa, or such co-sympathizers as governor de Castaneda of Nicaragua and the anonymous bureaucrat who reported on the brutal excesses of Viceroy de Mendoza of New Spain. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 506

Categorization

• XREF: Aristotle’s ‘aristocracy of race’ as a foundational rationalization echoes later justifications for slavery that the Black radical tradition would oppose.