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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
It seems like this may be a semantics issue on what we're calling "race"? Europeans certainly saw the African as other from the beginnings of the slave trade, but that view's development into modern ideas of race was a process that took a few centuries.
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I guess so, because what you and Chaos are calling race seems to tied to negative perception of those differences, whereas I tend to think of race in the DuBoisian sense, as one of the ways that a group people define themselves against another group, which does not necessarily imply negative associations. Though I would argues that the negative associations attached to those perceived differences did emerge earlier rather than later.