Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science followed race-thinking; it did not create it; Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 571; Preexisting race-thinking gave racism a false veneer of respectability (+8 more)

Related

• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.89)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (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 0.87)
• Late-nineteenth-century racial theory was nearly undisputed in European culture (similarity 0.85)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.85)
• European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery (similarity 0.84)
• Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.84)
• Racism is rooted in concrete material conditions, not ruling-class conspiracy or error (similarity 0.83)
• England built its history on racial duality while France long asserted national homogeneity (similarity 0.83)
• Nobility’s conquest doctrine split France into two peoples before race-thinking emerged (similarity 0.83)
• Race-thinking supplied a natural aristocracy to replace the feudal nobility (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule (similarity 0.82)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.81)
• European race prejudice would persist even if blacks lived in metropolitan France (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Racism is a constitutive, foundational element of colonialism rather than an incidental detail. #corroborates (0.80)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #corroborates (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Preexisting race-thinking gave racism a false veneer of respectability #contradicts (0.75)
• Imperialism normalized unprecedented hybrid and race-based arrangements. #corroborates (0.75)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts #corroborates (0.74)
• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule #corroborates (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571
• Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology #contradicts (0.72)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #complicates (0.70)