In all manifestations of racism from the mildest to the most severe, what is being denied is the possibility that the racializers and the racialized can coexist in the same society, except perhaps on the basis of domination and subordination.
GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON, Racism: A Short History
Whatever their intentions ... eighteenth-century ethnologists opened the way to a secular or scientific racism by considering human beings part of the animal kingdom rather than by viewing them in biblical terms as children of God endowed with spiritual capacities denied to other creatures.
GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON, Racism: A Short History
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