The master class of the emergent modern chattel slave production system invented "races" -- it took a lot of struggle on the part of masters to inculcate racism in the minds of commoners and servants who came from what would eventually become "Europe."
Once racism was born and became "common sense," most went along with the skin-color hierarchy. The most fascinating "white" writers -- those who attempted to see the world through the eyes of the racially oppressed -- presented "whiteness" as what inspires "nameless horror."
E.g.
* Edgar Allan Poe, _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_, especially Chapter XXV <http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/p74a/chap25.html> and Note <http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/p74a/chap26.html>.
* Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_, Chapter 42 "The Whiteness of the Whale": "Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."
Cf. Toni Morrison, _Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination_ (1992). -- Yoshie
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