Perceived natural inferiority arises only after actual oppression.

Evidence

People are more readily perceived as inferior by nature when they are already seen as oppressed. Africans and their descendants might be, to the eye of the English, heathen in religion, outlandish in nationality, and weird in appearance. But that did not add up to an ideology of racial inferiority until a further historical ingredient got stirred into the mixture: the incorporation of Africans and their descendants into a polity and society in which they lacked rights that others not only took for granted, but claimed as a matter of self-evident natural law. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 190

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 190
• XREF: connects to: Perceived natural inferiority follows rather than precedes actual oppression; Racial inferiority ideology emerges from oppression, not merely from perceived difference; Suffering from non-whiteness begins only when the white man imposes discrimination

Broader Connections

• Perceived natural inferiority follows rather than precedes actual oppression #corroborates (1.00)
• Racial inferiority ideology emerges from oppression, not merely from perceived difference #corroborates (0.95)
• Suffering from non-whiteness begins only when the white man imposes discrimination #corroborates (0.85)