Not that it matters, mostly, but I do want to get the words right. So we are reading a book on someone who is mixed Native American Ojibwe and white.
Some people in my class, let’s say, are Indian (from India) and white. We agreed that would be mixed, but for example, someone who is English and Swedish would not be because they are just white.
Would they not be mixed race, mixed ethnicity, or be neither?
I don’t see how that helps the validity of race as a concept.
I should have specified what was wrong with the comment:
This is not accurate race is not a mislabeling of the problems caused by a clash of cultures.
Race is a deliberately designed system of categorization used for the purposes of dehumanizing humans to solve the cognitive dissonance humans feel when they commit atrocities against other humans. de Zurara’s writing was at the request of Prime Henry, who was kidnapping people from Africa, torturing them, and selling them into chattel slavery. De Zurara invented categories for people that attempted to make this behavior rational and justified.
It’s not an ambient phenomenon like “culture clash”. It’s a specific project of European slavery and colonization.