White English identity formed simultaneously with othering of domestic and colonial populations

Evidence

The image of the Negro served a need shared by whites, North and South; it performed an identity function for white Americans during a period when they were groping for self-definition. It is significant to note the way whites imagined the Negro in relation to themselves: the Negro was mentally inferior, naturally lazy, childlike, unwholesome, and given to vice. He was the antithesis of themselves and of what they valued: industriousness, intelligence, and moral restraint. (p. 42). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3408 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: White English identity was forged through othering its own poor and Scots — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 137; English whiteness formed simultaneously with othering of internal and external populations; White identity was partly constructed through contrast with the imagined Black other — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3408 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• English whiteness formed simultaneously with othering of internal and external populations #corroborates (0.98)
• White identity was forged concurrently with the othering of internal British groups. #corroborates (0.95)
• White identity was partly constructed through contrast with the imagined Black other #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3408
• Colonial white womanhood was constituted through race, not gender alone #expands (0.72)