Origins of white response to blackness remain historically uncertain.
Evidence
“[T]he historian, rather like the modern student of race-awareness in very young children, must remain tentative and indeed baffled as to whether white men originally responded adversely to the Negro’s color because of strictly accidental prior culture valuation of blackness per se, instinctual repulsion founded on physiological processes or perhaps fear of the night which may have had adaptive value in human evolution, the association of dirt and darkened complexion with the lower classes in Europe, or association of blackness with Negroes who were inferior in culture or status.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1710
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Chasing the actual root cause of color-based racial prejudice could be a research thread.
Related
- Racialism is rooted in European civilization itself, not a single era (similarity 0.81)
- Racialism is an enduring principle of European civilization, not a modern invention (similarity 0.81)
- Racism scholarship fails by presuming only European history is determinative. (similarity 0.81)
- Racial science gave subjective prejudice a patina of objective authority (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Europeans did not view dark-skinned Africans as naturally inferior. (similarity 0.80)
- Racial ideology predated and prepared for the creation of the Negro (similarity 0.79)
- Large Black populations in Rome did not produce color prejudice. (similarity 0.79)
- White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations (similarity 0.79)