English historians read English history as a perennial war between two races

Evidence

With this backdrop of warlike domination, English historians such as Coke or Selden reconstructed the main episodes in the history of England; each episode ts analyzed as either an effect or a resumption of the historically primal state of war that exists between two hostile races which have different institutions and different interests. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 7647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘race war’ historical schema — the reading of history as perpetual conflict between two peoples with different institutions — that Foucault develops into his genealogy of biopower and state racism.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the later Islamophobia readings’ understanding of how a ‘war of races’ historiographical frame becomes racial hierarchy; connects to Foucault’s concept of ‘historical-political discourse of race struggle’ he elaborates in following pages and to the modern racial/ethnic bifurcation of national populations.