11/13/2023 0 Comments Review white supremacist andy daly![]() ![]() Photograph: Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock Only in the 20th century, as the working class was drawn into the democratic process, and as the new imperialism redrew the “colour line”, did the contemporary understanding of race emerge.Ī protester outside the News Corp building in New York, where Fox News broadcasts conspiracy theories about the ‘Great Replacement’. It may be difficult to comprehend now, but 19th-century thinkers looked upon the working class as a distinct racial group in much the same way as many now view black people as racially dissimilar to white people. It was, for them, a description of social inequality, not just of skin colour. But that was not how 19th-century thinkers imagined race. We think of race today primarily in terms of skin colour. They were deemed to be racially distinct, as black people, to justify their enslavement. The ancestors of today’s African Americans were not enslaved because they were black. In fact, the opposite is the case: intellectuals and elites began dividing the world into distinct races to explain and justify the differential treatment of certain peoples. Most people assume that racism emerges when members of one race begin discriminating against members of another. Not So Black and White is a retelling of the history both of the idea of race and of the struggles to confront racism and to transcend racial categorisation, a retelling that challenges many of the ways in which we think both of race and of antiracism. This paradox is at the heart of my new book.
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