
The lie that invented racism | John Biewen
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The Invention of Racial Categories and Systemic Racism
This chapter explores how European ideologies created the concept of 'blackness' to rationalize the enslavement of Africans and establish racial hierarchies. It underscores the transformation of these ideas into discriminatory laws in colonial America, illustrating racism as a systemic mechanism of exploitation.
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