The Negro identity was manufactured in the West, not brought from Africa.

Evidence

There is yet another reason for Robinson to begin in the heart of the West. It was there—not Africa—that the “Negro” was first manufactured. … This generation of “enlightened” European scholars worked hard to wipe out the cultural and intellectual contributions of Egypt and Nubia from European history, to whiten the West in order to maintain the purity of the “European” race. … Rather, Black Marxism reminds us again today, as it did sixteen years ago, that the exorcising of the Black Mediterranean is about the fabrication of Europe as a discrete, racially pure entity solely responsible for modernity, on the one hand, and the fabrication of the Negro, on the other. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what ‘fabrication of the Negro and whiteness’ means as a twin process at the symbolic heart of how the Black radical tradition’s opponent was constructed.
• XREF: Connects directly to Edward Said’s Orientalism as a parallel construction-of-the-Other argument and to Martin Bernal’s Black Athena.