European race prejudice would persist even if blacks lived in metropolitan France

Evidence

I am willing to carry on a discussion only with people who agree to pose the following hypothesis: a France that had on its metropolitan soil ten million blacks, five or six million of them in the valley of the Garonne. Would our valiant populations of the Southwest never have been touched by race prejudice? Would there not have been the slightest apprehension if the question had arisen of turning all powers over to these Negroes, the sons of slaves? — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 108

Categorization

• QUESTION: The thought experiment accidentally concedes that race prejudice is not contingent on demographic proximity but is structural — worth chasing how Césaire’s sarcasm double-binds his opponents.
• XREF: connects to: Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338; Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure.; Large Black populations in Greco-Roman society did not produce modern color prejudice

Related

• Large Black populations in Greco-Roman society did not produce modern color prejudice (similarity 0.86)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.84)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.84)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers (similarity 0.83)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.82)
• Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.82)
• Large Black populations in Rome did not produce color prejudice. (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.81)
• Late-nineteenth-century racial theory was nearly undisputed in European culture (similarity 0.81)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.81)
• Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking (similarity 0.81)
• Racism, not migrancy, should frame European postcolonial settlement history (similarity 0.81)
• Greco-Roman societies lacked systematic color prejudice (similarity 0.80)
• Racial evaporation became harder to sustain as former colonies migrated to European metropoles (similarity 0.79)
• England built its history on racial duality while France long asserted national homogeneity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. #corroborates (0.85)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #corroborates (0.82) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Large Black populations in Greco-Roman society did not produce modern color prejudice #corroborates (0.75)