December 2006
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Sixteenth Century Journal
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... 'White person' was employed to identify an individual of European descent and subsequently as a method of distinguishing the enslavers from the enslaved; 'black' people and those of colour. Similarly, colonialism offers further evidence of racial classification, with the identifiers white, black and brown used to mark the "coloniser, slave, and colonised" (Silverblatt, 2005). Whiteness, then, had moved away from the negative connotations it possessed during the ancient Greco-Roman era, and had begun to place those identifying or perceived to be white in a position of superiority and societal power. ...
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December 2006
Sixteenth Century Journal