Racism grotesquely inverted Africa’s cultural oneness into the claim that all Blacks are identical

Evidence

As we shall see, in slave society such a signification of African culture was accessible for practical and ideological reasons only in a most grotesque form, that is, racism. Racist ideologues observed that all Blacks were identical and supplied the content of that identity. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 397

Categorization

• QUESTION: How exactly does the perception of ‘essential oneness of African culture’ get twisted into the dehumanizing sameness of racist ideology? The mechanism warrants chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Lumping all non-Black multiracial people into one category erases their distinct experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51