Tried asking this on the Reddit history pages, immediately removed for asking for a "basic fact", meanwhile sourcing is near impossible to find.
Ive been trying to find more sources on the origins of the racial identity construct, particularly in the development of widespread white supremacy, and how the "white" identity developed. In my research, it has seemed very clear that it developed in conjunction with the Catholic Church's rise to power at the continental scale. In this same location, fertile birthing grounds for settler-colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. Any recommended reading on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
Furthermore, as the title stated, I am looking for the earliest recorded instances of one peoples inflicting subhumanization behavior on another. Obviously conflict between different groups of people traces far back before recorded history, but I am very interested in finding when a group first identified as "pure" human, while declaring all those without said traits subhuman. I have a feeling there must be some Marxist text on this, so if anyone knows it I'd love to see it.
Selfish plug to the research I've done thus far if anyone wants to check it out
I don't have an answer but I have been meaning to grab a copy of Gerald Horne's book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. I've heard him on a couple podcasts and a big part of the book is the creation of an inclusive "whiteness" beyond specific European ethnicities.
That sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. Thanks for the recommendation comrade!
No! It probably isn't going to go too much into the first instances of othering people but it's the most relevant to our current conditions. From what I've heard from Horne though it sounds dope. This dude cranks out Marxist history books like a machine, a lot of his stuff sounds interesting as fuck.
Yeah I meant its exactly what I'm looking for only in that its the second half of exactly what I'm trying to fully piece together. The origins of whiteness and if mass-scale racial subhumanization really did originate with the "white" identity is what I wish to find out, which would be extremely interesting in connecting all the dots in capitalism, settler-colonialism, white christian supremacy, racism, etc.