The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism

Evidence

It seems to me that there are reasonable historical grounds for saying that this way of making a political analysis of power relations (which are seen as relations of war between two races that coexist within a single society) does not, or at least not in the first instance, have anything to do with the religious problem. You will find that this analysis was actually formulated, or was being formulated, at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. In other words, the divide, the perception of the war between races predates the notions of social struggle or class struggle, but it certainly cannot be identified with a racism of, if you like, the religious type. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 104

Categorization

• QUESTION: Foucault claims race-war analysis is formulated at end of sixteenth century independent of religious racism; worth chasing the historical evidence.
• XREF: connects to: Abandoning humanity’s common origin makes natural war between races plausible; Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology; Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 96 (+2 more)

Related

• Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology (similarity 0.90)
• Abandoning humanity’s common origin makes natural war between races plausible (similarity 0.88)
• Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle (similarity 0.86)
• The dialectic neutralized a prior historical discourse of race struggle (similarity 0.84)
• The French Revolution was reinterpreted through a history-of-races lens early in the nineteenth century (similarity 0.82)
• Race-struggle discourse replaces sovereign unity with a principle of heterogeneity (similarity 0.81)
• Marx derived the idea of class struggle from race-struggle historiography (similarity 0.81)
• Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state (similarity 0.80)
• Tracing feudalism’s origins to religious-racial war legitimated the social order externally (similarity 0.80)
• Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle (similarity 0.80)
• Eighteenth-century historical discourse made war the primary analyzer of political relations (similarity 0.80)
• English historians read English history as a perennial war between two races (similarity 0.80)
• Race theory was an instrument usable by both contending parties (similarity 0.79)
• The Revolution’s class struggles were reinterpreted as race history (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The dialectic neutralized a prior historical discourse of race struggle #responds-to (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 298
• Tracing feudalism’s origins to religious-racial war legitimated the social order externally #responds-to (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 141