Race and property were thus conflated by establishing a form of property contingent on race-only Blacks were subjugated as slaves and treated as property. Similarly, the conquest, removal, and extermination of Native American life and culture were ratified by conferring and acknowledging the property rights of whites in Native American land. Only white possession and occupation of land was validated and therefore privileged as a basis for property rights. These distinct forms of exploitation each contributed in varying ways to the construction of whiteness as property.
-Whiteness As Property by Cheryl I. Harris
Volume 106, June 1993, Number 8, pg.1716
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