The Hamitic curse mythology legitimized racial hierarchy in European thought
Evidence
This perception of Africans was well summarized in the Hegelian paradigm of world history as well as the theological mythology of the Hamitic curse, so well exemplified in the Vatican document Postulatum pro Nigris Africae Centralis (Sacro Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 673
Categorization
- QUESTION: The Vatican document Postulatum pro Nigris Africae Centralis is obscure - worth researching its content and influence on Catholic missionary theology.
- XREF: connects to: Early modern blood-purity racism inherited heresy suspicion, not intellectual inferiority; Racecraft’s real function is preserving racial hierarchy; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”