Race as a configuration dates only from the late eighteenth century

Evidence

Race then is not a premodern condition but a quintessentially modern one masquerading in the guise of the given and the ancient, bloodlines and genetic pools. States have acquired their modernity more or less and partially through racial assumption, through being drawn into the terms and forms, shapes and spaces, temporalities and rhythms of racial world ordering and world racial definition. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 61 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race as a configured ideology only appears after the late eighteenth century; Race gained formal codification and state authority from the eighteenth century; Eighteenth-century ethnology fused bodily and cultural notions of race together — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 137 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Race as a configured ideology only appears after the late eighteenth century #corroborates (0.98)
• Race is a modern concept barely existing before the Enlightenment #corroborates (0.93)
• Religious xenophobia predates race, while race as a configured ideology postdates 1800 #corroborates (0.90)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 61
• Race gained formal codification and state authority from the eighteenth century #corroborates (0.85)
• Racial categories operated through belonging-versus-otherness boundaries already in the early medieval period #contradicts (0.85) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 89
• Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 346
• Eighteenth-century ethnology fused bodily and cultural notions of race together #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 137
• Racial categories were administratively imposed on people formerly counted as white in the 1760s #exemplifies (0.75)
• The word race entered dictionaries in 1606 denoting animal-like descent #complicates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 84
• Race concepts only gained political force when colonial needs adopted them #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 252