Aristotle’s racial hierarchy persisted in European thought through Hitler and apartheid

Evidence

It should not be too out of place to remind ourselves here that this concept of race has never since been too far from the European psyche, peering out sporadically, with blue eyes and lily white skin, whether through that grotesque Sepulveda [one of Las Casas’ most persistent opponents] who spoke of the “Superior” Spaniards, and applied the very Greek word “barbarian” to the Indians, or through Count Gobineau or Richard Wagner and his son-in-law, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, or Thomas Carlyle who had much influence on New World slavery, culminating in the megalomaniac excesses of Hitler and the racist regimes in Southern Africa. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 507

Categorization

• XREF: Traces the continuity of racial ideology from classical slavery through Nazism, useful for the reader’s arc of how the Black radical tradition confronted an enduring European racism.