Belief in racial difference outpaced any actual measurable difference

Evidence

Racecraft is … the process by which racism becomes race … . You don’t start with the perception of people being different and then out of that grows racism. You start with racism; you start with the double standard, which is a practice and also an ideology, and out of that race emerges. You learn to recognize people as belonging to a race because you have been in the rituals of racism with them. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceived racial difference from Muslims outweighed actual biological difference — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 83; The measurement of race differences justifies rather than discovers inequality — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1141; Racism is real while race itself is a myth — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference #complicates (0.78) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32