Denying colonial subjects the rights Europeans fought for required racializing them as essentially fixed

Evidence

Racialism emerged in the eighteenth century as the dominant expression of European expansion and the transcontinental domination which the racialism justified. Colonial rule after the Berlin Conference was saturated with racialism. Lévy-Brühl, an armchair anthropologist (rather than a philosopher), posits that there is a radical difference between the West and “primitive” peoples. The West, for example, is characterized by a history of intellectual and spiritual reasoning, whereas the life (Weltanschauung) and thinking of “primitives” were viewed as inferior or as having nothing in common with the West (Mudimbe 1988, pp. 135–136). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 513 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Around the time of the American Colonization Society’s founding, European nations were increasingly turning their capital and guns from the slave trade to the cause of colonizing Africa (as well as Asia). English, French, German, and Portuguese armies fought African armies throughout the nineteenth century, trying to establish colonies in order to exploit Africa’s resources and bodies more systematically and efficiently. This new racist drive required racist ideas to make sense of it, and Hegel’s pontifications about backward Africans arrived right on time. Racist ideas always seemed to arrive right on time to dress up the ugly economic and political exploitation of African people. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 394 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 513; Human rights rhetoric masks imperial assumptions that racialize colonized peoples; European colonization of Africa preceded and required the racist ideas justifying it — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 394 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Human rights rhetoric masks imperial assumptions that racialize colonized peoples #corroborates (0.88)
• European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule #corroborates (0.85) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 513
• European colonization of Africa preceded and required the racist ideas justifying it #corroborates (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 394
• Settler and imperial justifications rest on denied racialized us-versus-they splits #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1851
• Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary #expands (0.78) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516
• European racial ideology predated and justified the African slave trade, not vice versa #corroborates (0.74) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 401