Another great text on the historical cultivation of "whiteness" and European racial taxonomies is Neil Irvin Painter's "The History of White People". Michel Fou

Another great text on the historical cultivation of "whiteness" and European racial taxonomies is Neil Irvin Painter's "The History of White People". Michel Foucault's late 70s lectures on the history of race war in European discourse from the Norman Conquest onward are also available in printed form in English though I can't recall the name right now.