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Eliminativism could be said to have originated in the political work of Ward Connerly who has petitioned to remove racial categories from government forms and databases.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Connerly

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Thanks!!

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I would date it to George Schuyler and his "Negro Art Hokum" and other essays, like those from the collection "Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays." I would also add Alain Locke's writings going back to 1914 as an earlier eliminativist than Schuyler.

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Oh....I came to add Jean Toomer to the early eliminativist list!

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Kabnis is my hero.

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