The History of White People is not a conventional narrative in which the major events are lined up neatly in a row to be studied. Rather it's an intellectual history about the invention and development of white racial consciousness and racialist theory from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present, particularly as it relates to America's transition from colonial outpost, to melting pot, to multiracial superpower. It's essential to understand that the history of racism isn't just the story of white against black. In the pyramid of racialist theory Nordic White and African Black were simply the two extremes of the spectrum, the top and bottom of the pyramid. In between were the Celts, assorted Catholics, Eastern Europeans and Slavs, degenerate whites, "Alpines", the Italians and other Mediterranean types, and, of course, the Jews. Asians were seen as being so low on the evolutionary scale that they were often overlooked entirely in this theoretical construct. Indigenous populations such as the Native Americans and Native Australians were believed to have gone the way of the dinosaur, overtaken and made non-existent by natural selection. Inferior, "beaten" races were obviously not equipped by naturewith the means to compete with those who believed themselves to be at the apex of evolution. Such a relentless identification of "inferiors" based on a philosophy of racial superiority could only ever lead to conflict, war, and genocide, which, of course, it did.
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