Racial mixing would hardly be noticed without racialized political histories

Evidence

In addition, the growth of creole communities, mainly in the Americas, but also in parts of Asia and Africa, led inevitably to the appearance of Eurasians, Eurafricans, as well as Euramericans, not as occasional curiosities but as visible social groups. Their emergence permitted a style of thinking to flourish which foreshadows modern racism. Portugal, earliest of Europe’s planetary conquerors, provides an apt illustration of this point. In the last decade of the fifteenth century Dom Manuel I could still ‘solve’ his ‘Jewish question’ by mass, forcible conversion – possibly the last European ruler to find this solution both satisfactory and ‘natural’. Less than a century later, however, one finds Alexandre Valignano, the great reorganizer of the Jesuit mission in Asia between 1574 and 1606, vehemently opposing the admission of Indians and Eurindians to the priesthood — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 229 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Present racial conflicts must be taught as outcomes of a long dynamic history. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 486; Race and racism cannot be fully separated historically or politically — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 82; Mixed-race populations’ visibility enabled early modern racism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 229 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Mixed-race populations’ visibility enabled early modern racism #complicates (0.74) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 229