Race served as a theological marker separating the blessed from the cursed

Evidence

Race increasingly and definitively was invoked to mark the elevated from the excluded, the (relatively) privileged from the demonized, the civil(ized) from the heathen, the blessed community from the cursed. In short, sons of Abraham from those of Ham. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370

Categorization

• DEFINE: The curse-of-Ham lineage frames race as a theological category in the Cape, useful for Afro-pessimist debates.
• XREF: Links to chapters on sacrifice and immodesty: colonial race ideology operating as sacred status distinction. — connects to: Calvinist divine election hardened racial boundaries against earlier Catholic monogenism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1322; Theology justified slavery and genocide by marking whiteness as Christian — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 145; A governor won office on a theology that God ordained segregation — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 118 (+3 more)