Before the age of exploration, group differences were largely based on language, religion, and geography. ... the European had always reacted a bit hysterically to the differences of skin color and facial structure between themselves and the populations encountered in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (see, for example, Shakespeares dramatization of racial conflict in Othello and The Tempest). Beginning in the 1500s, Europeans began to develop what became known as scientific racism, the attempt to construct a biological rather than cultural definition of race ... Whiteness, then, emerged as what we now call a pan-ethnic category, as a way of merging a variety of European ethnic populations into a single race ... —Gregory Jay, Who Invented White People?
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:15:42 +0000
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