For years I was perplexed by the idea that race was invented by the Enlightenment. I had two ways of understanding this concept. The first was obviously true and yet trivial (race, as a biological concept, did not exist before modern ideas regarding biological inheritance). The second was provocative but obviously false (before the invention of race, pe…
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