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Race - Slavery, Oppression, Racism | Britannica Despite much opposition, these European groups soon lost their inferior race status, and within a few generations their descendants not only were assimilated into the “white” category but had also incorporated the white racial worldview
FROM SLAVERY TO SEGREGATION - Equal Justice Initiative The narrative of racial difference created to justify slavery — the myth that white people are superior to Black people — was not abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation or the Thirteenth Amendment, and it outlived slavery and Reconstruction
Who Started Racism? History, Examples, Ways to Take Action Instead of acknowledging the legacy of slavery and other injustices from the past, many people believe inequality is the result of innate racial differences That assumes race is a biological reality, which it’s not
Racist ideas | Black and white in Britain | The wider world | After . . . In the 18th and 19th century, many white people campaigned for an end to the slave trade and for freedom for the slaves But few of those white people believed in racial equality, that is equality between the black and white races
A Prehistory of Scientific Racism | The MIT Press Reader Although it is easy to imagine chattel slavery as being an effect of racism, it is more accurate to say that racism was an effect of chattel slavery Whiteness and Blackness were invented to produce a dividing line between Europeans and Africans in British America
Whiteness Without Malice: The Lie That Sustains American Racism America was constructed through Indigenous genocide, African enslavement, Asian exclusion, and Mexican dispossession These are not just historical facts—they are the foundation of our modern systems Whiteness was created as a political tool to consolidate power, and it has delivered ever since
Segregation - National Humanities Center During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas Under these circumstances, segregation did not prove necessary as the boundaries between free citizens and people held in bondage remained clear