Middle Ages : Europe Before Racism (featuring Olivette Otele)

I have said it before, racism only* came after colonialism and slave trade, and here is a welcome example of someone else's research on this:

The Guardian : African Europeans by Olivette Otele review – when race mattered less
Fara Dabhoiwala @fdabhoi Wed 4 Nov 2020 12.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/04/african-europeans-by-olivette-otele-review-when-race-mattered-less

African Europeans: An Untold History
Relié – Grands caractères, 29 octobre 2020, Édition en Anglais de Olivette Otele (Auteur)
https://www.amazon.fr/African-Europeans-History-Olivette-Otele/dp/1787381919

* Or prevalent racism did so, some degree of "racism" is arguably inevitable and not necessarily even bad. If it doesn't affect that people who have the same rights otherwise should not have them reduced because of racial difference.