Hobbes’s prejudice against Native Americans was civilizational rather than racial.

Evidence

Hobbes eschews both geographical and biological determinism, it would seem then that the prejudice is civilizational, not racial. For Hobbes, America seems to be excluded a priori from the process of civilization, and with it, from modern civility altogether, its populations outside of history, imprisoned in ‘nature.’ This exclusion, however, is not CDnal and can be overcome by, of course, the process of ‘civilization’ itself. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in civility-framing and how a political community imagines its own cohesion — here Hobbes excludes a group from civility entirely, framing them as outside history, which bears on the threat-based vs. project-based solidarity question. — connects to: Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 17; Hobbes locates his hypothesized state of nature in the living present of Americas’ peoples — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 24; Hobbes’s exclusionary frame is cultural-historical civility rather than biological race — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 25 (+11 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: if exclusion is civilizational and reversible through ‘civilization,’ does this framing soften or merely modernize the justification for colonial domination of Native American polities?

Related

• Hobbes’s exclusionary frame is cultural-historical civility rather than biological race (similarity 0.91)
• Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. (similarity 0.88)
• Hobbes read contemporary American tribes as living evidence of Europe’s own ancient past. (similarity 0.87)
• Hobbes frames savages as deprived of arts rather than as hostile enemies. (similarity 0.83)
• Hobbes locates his hypothesized state of nature in the living present of Americas’ peoples (similarity 0.83)
• Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and Its Others- American Imaginaries, State of Nature, and Civility in Hobbes (similarity 0.81)
• Early racial theories based superiority on historical conquest, not physical traits. (similarity 0.79)
• Framing natives as uncivilized precludes their equal citizenship. (similarity 0.79)
• Hobbes promoted civility before the word civilization existed (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hobbes frames savages as deprived of arts rather than as hostile enemies. #corroborates (0.92) — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 79
• Ancient peoples held prejudices but lacked race-based ideologies. #corroborates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 39
• Modern racism legitimizes itself through cultural difference rather than biological hierarchy. #corroborates (0.78)
• Hobbes supplied the theoretical premise of excluding humanity that race doctrines need #expands (0.75)
• Realist racial-formation theory treats religious-flavored premodern hostility as not a form of race. #corroborates (0.74) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 21
• Race and ethnicity are socially constructed rather than natural categories. #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 104
• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #corroborates (0.72)
• Early racial theories based superiority on historical conquest, not physical traits. #corroborates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 439
• Puritans applied heathen and infidel labels to Native Americans much as Spaniards did #corroborates (0.71)