The term employs race and racism as the primary category of analysis of global, national, and local affairs.
[1] The term was originally proposed by Dirk Moses,[2] who describes the "racial century" as "a single modernization process of accelerating violence related to nation-building that commenced in the European colonial periphery and culminated in the Holocaust.
"[3] Moses argues that colonial genocides and mass exterminations of the 20th century should be seen as a unified process.
[4] The term has gained increasing acceptance in postcolonial studies since the early 2000s.
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