===Conclusion===
A simple syllogism: Enlightenment produced modernity. Modernity is characterized by the racialization of humanity. The problem of race then stems in part, if not wholly, from the desire to construct categories of difference, which served attempts to define the human. Western intellectual history narrates the evolution of the ideas that structure human societies. “Race” is unfortunately one of those ideas. Yet, the prominence of anti-racist thought has offered alternative ways of seeing difference. While there may never be a consensus on how these ideas evolve, by starting from the very question of what it means to be human and possess intellectual capacity, more intellectual historians might gain the insight that has been heretofore explained away.
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Garrett, Aaron. “Human Nature.” In ''The Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy'', edited by Knud Haakonssen, 160-234. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, It’s Overrepresentration—An Argument.” ''CR: The New Centennial Review'' 3 (Fall 2003): 257-337.
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