It was in the making of the New World that Europeans became white, Africans black, and everyone else yellow, red, or brown. t was in the making of the New World that humans were set apart on the basis of what they looked like, identified solely in contrast to one another, and ranked to form a caste system based on a new concept called race. It was in the process of ranking that we were all cast into assigned roles to meet the needs of the larger production. None of us are ourselves.
-Isabel Wilkerson
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