🔴 **The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea**
"_What’s more, historians such as Oscar and Mary Handlin, Edmund Morgan and Edward Rugemer have largely confirmed Du Bois’s suspicion that while xenophobia appears to be fairly universal among human groupings, the invention of a white racial identity was motivated from the start by a need to justify the enslavement of Africans._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea**