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Originally Posted by Little32
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.
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That's not how we're defining race. I define race the same way that DuBois did, as a N. American construct.
But that conceptualization aside, you already said that slavery was initially about economics (the physical and cultural differences were used for a reason, not because Europeans hated a "race" of people and targeted them as a hobby). And that race became an emphasis a little later on as the N. American construct of "race" developed and advanced. We're saying the same thing.
