Racial categorization first targeted Ireland through internal colonialism

Evidence

Interestingly, the first biological, or phenotypical, assignations of race used to categorize others as an ‘inferior race’ were applied to internal colonialism, against Irish populations notably. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 26

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ in that both track how civilizational hierarchies were defined against classed/ethnic ‘others’; the Irish-as-inferior-race framing parallels how dress panics coded political identities.
• XREF: Docts the ‘racial contract’ / internal colonialism genealogy — echoes how the civilizing gaze, not just the racializing one, was first trained on an internal population. — connects to: English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 18; Ireland was Britain’s first colony and the Irish its earliest racialized group. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 325; Racism against Europeans like the Irish predated color-based slavery (+5 more)
• CANDY: A crisp, surprising fact: biological race-thinking debuted not on distant ‘savages’ but adjacent Irish neighbors, via internal colonialism.

Related

• Ireland was Britain’s first colony and the Irish its earliest racialized group. (similarity 0.84)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.84)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.81)
• The Irish were the prototype white servants later absorbed into a white racial identity (similarity 0.81)
• Irish whiteness required excluding blacks from any shared occupation and erasing memory (similarity 0.80)
• Britain shifted Ireland from racial toward national oppression after 1801. (similarity 0.80)
• The Penal Laws made Irish Catholics an oppressed race in Ireland. (similarity 0.80)
• Local Africans rejected racial categories until Europeans imposed them (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Black racism bled back to Ireland even as Irish-Americans whitened. (similarity 0.79)
• European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish #expands (0.95) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 18
• Ireland was Britain’s first colony and the Irish its earliest racialized group. #qualifies (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 325
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 401
• European racism began inside Europe before capitalism or African encounters #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 17
• Racism against Europeans like the Irish predated color-based slavery #complicates (0.80)
• Religious identity racialized Irish Catholics as a separate inferior race #expands (0.75)