Frontier violence fueled racism, not the reverse

Evidence

Grenier argues that rather than racism leading to violence, the reverse occurred: the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 141

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common causal assumption about racism and violence; connects to broader debates on the origins of American racism. — connects to: Racism is a constitutive, foundational element of colonialism rather than an incidental detail.; Southern militia attacks on farmers were driven by booty-seeking, not race; A settler frontier mythology drives America’s lax gun laws — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 105 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 141

Broader Connections

• Plantation slavery produced juridical racism, not the reverse #corroborates (0.72)
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract #expands (0.45)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #contradicts (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338