Race-thinkers needed anthropology to classify Europeans into distinct hereditary types

Evidence

In the end the race-thinkers had to look to anthropology to round out a naturalistic nativism. Anthropology alone could classify the peoples of Europe into hereditary types that would distinguish the new immigration from older Americans; it alone might arrange these races in a hierarchy of merit and thereby prove the irremediable inferiority of the newcomers; and anthropology would have to collaborate with genetics to show wherein a mixture of races physically weakens the stronger. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 914

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences racialization as a manufactured, contingent category that requires a scientific apparatus to sustain itself — relevant to the reader’s claim that race is a passing form of the enemy construct. — connects to: Racial typing drew scientific legitimacy from downwards-directed species categories. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 584; Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516; Racial categories were administratively imposed rather than biologically fixed — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial typing drew scientific legitimacy from downwards-directed species categories. #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 584
• Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary #corroborates (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516
• Racial categories were administratively imposed rather than biologically fixed #contradicts (0.75) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216
• Commercial DNA ancestry tests reify continental race categories as fixed biogeographical types #complicates (0.75)