Aryan myth created an internal hierarchy of races within European whiteness itself

Evidence

Racialists, not satisfied with merely proclaiming the superiority of the white over the coloured race, also felt it necessary to erect a hierarchy within the white race itself. To meet this need they developed the myth of the Aryan, or Nordic, superiority. The Aryan myth in turn became the source of other secondary myths such as Teutonism (Germany), Anglo-Saxonism (England and the United States), and Celticism (France). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 209

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier highlight on Anglo-Saxonism flown as a Whig ideological pennant in Horsman’s account — same myth complex, internal versus external targets.