Great to hear!
Kant definitely comes in for it in my book. We’re starting to do a number on the “Enlightenment’s” role in whiteness/white supremacy, but we have a ways to go. The book is synthetic in nature and is meant for everyone to read. But i think i might have carried the ball downfield a bit

I still contend they’ll bring back indenture

Yes, monogenism absolutely won the day. Polygenism had its adherents, but had the disadvantage of being slightly heretical, so it was a minority position until roughly the era I mentioned.

I hope you check out my book when it comes out in early 2026.

If I paint with a broad brush, while acknowledging exceptions, the species stuff tended to be later.

At least that’s what this guy wrote:

www.cambridge.org/ga/universit...

The borders are hazy, for sure, but in the English-speaking world, in the 1700s, the idea was that “nonwhite” peoples were sort of “historical losers,” but human. (They were degraded.) By something like the mid 1800s, and pretty completely by the turn of the 20th cent, they were a dif species.

Quick! Let’s see what Ezra Klein or Francis Fukuyama have to say!!

/s

I see the Camus stuff too often.

I’m glad you want back to Stoddard and Grant

www.cambridge.org/ga/universit...

Not rooted in the Stuart history the new Americans had firmly in mind?

NYT wrote this to self-soothe after ZM's win