England built its history on racial duality while France long asserted national homogeneity

Evidence

I said just above that South Africa has a racist structure. Now I shall go farther and say that Europe has a racist structure. It is plain to see that M. Mannoni has no interest in this problem, for he says, “France is unquestionably one of the least racialist-minded countries in the world.” Be glad that you are French, my fine Negro friends, even if it is a little hard, for your counterparts in America are much worse off than you… . France is a racist country, for the myth of the bad nigger is part of the collective unconscious. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nobility’s conquest doctrine split France into two peoples before race-thinking emerged; British homogeneity was always a mask over deep internal cleavages; English national identity descends from a mongrel mixed ancestry — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 14 (+3 more)

Related

• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.87)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.87)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers (similarity 0.86)
• Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.85)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.85)
• Late-nineteenth-century racial theory was nearly undisputed in European culture (similarity 0.84)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.84)
• Nobility’s conquest doctrine split France into two peoples before race-thinking emerged (similarity 0.84)
• Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking (similarity 0.83)
• French racism was more consistent than other national racisms because it stayed antinational (similarity 0.82)
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (similarity 0.82)
• European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.81)
• Fabled kinship narratives guaranteed the nation’s homogeneity and continuous power (similarity 0.81)
• British homogeneity was always a mask over deep internal cleavages (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French racism endured because it cooperated with progressive, liberal values #expands (0.78)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. #expands (0.75)