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[[File:Alfred Binet.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Alfred Binet]] (1857–1911), inventor of the first intelligence test.]]

The western concept of race and [[white supremacy]] was developed to justify [[colonialism]], [[slavery]], [[racism]], [[social Darwinism]], and racial [[eugenic]]s. The cornerstone of white supremacy is the idea that white people are intrinsically superior to others races. Racist thinkers such as [[Arthur de Gobineau]] assumed that black people were innately inferior to whites in, developing theirthe ideologiesideology of [[white supremacy]]. Even white enlightenment thinkers such as [[Thomas Jefferson]], a slave owner, believed blacks to be innately inferior to whites in physique and intellect.{{sfn|Jackson|Weidman|2004|p=23}}

From the beginnings of slavery and colonialism up to the present day pseudoscience that linklinked race andto intelligence havehas been used to justify the subjugation of non-white people. Generally, black people were characterized as physically strong but unintelligent while white people were characterized as physically weaker but more intelligent.

===Early IQ testing===