Christian theology and pseudoscience jointly justified racial subjugation

Evidence

Race also dominates American social structures. Christian arguments morally justified the US government’s subjugation of Native Americans and enslavement of Africans. In conjunction with pseudoscientific theories of eugenics and phrenology, Christian theology supported claims that Africans, … Native Americans, and Asians were uncivilized, barbaric, and unfit for selfgovernance. That a sizable number of enslaved Africans were Muslims only confirmed Whites’ beliefs in their inferiority. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 173

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that Muslim identity among enslaved Africans confirmed White beliefs in their inferiority is a striking specific connecting to the book’s broader thesis about racialized Islamophobia. — connects to: Theology justified slavery and genocide by marking whiteness as Christian — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 145