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"By the 19th century, whites used dogs to track runaway slaves because they could supposedly detect 'racial odor,' foreseeing the use of dogs by the Nazis to detect the 'odor of dissent.'" Scent has long been used to mark otherness and justify exclusion, writes Françoise Vergès:

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Olfactory Racism Scent has long been used to mark otherness, enforce hierarchies, and justify exclusion. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/olfactory-racism/