Which came first—race or racism? Two generations ago, Sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox, a Trinidadian immigrant to the U.S., published a classic work, Caste, Class, and Race, in which he argued that the ideology of race as we understand it had its origins in European colonialism (Cox, 1948). It stuns me to know that, by some … Continue reading "How European Colonialism Led to the Invention of Race—And Why That Still Matters"