Climate-based monogenesis remained an assimilationist rebuttal to polygenesis

Evidence

Watching the Christian world unravel, Samuel Stanhope Smith made one last intellectual stand for theology, for assimilationists, and for monogenesis. He released an “enlarged and improved” second edition of Essay on the Causes of Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species in 1810, pledging to appeal “to the evidence of facts.” Nothing in the past twenty years had changed his position: racial difference resulted from climate and the state of a society. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 353

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows monogenesis/climate theory as the assimilationist pole of the era’s debate — ‘racial difference is environmental, changeable’ — directly useful for the reader’s three-way placement scheme.
• XREF: connects to: Opacity for the other triggers assimilation or annihilation, never coexistence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 296