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I am not defining capitalism as just everything bad, and capitalism is not as recent as you think. You may be thinking of industrial capitalism, which is a more recent development.
Historical Foundations of Race
No that's pretty recent, racism is millennia old. Furthermore, yes mixed economies exist, actually now they're basically the only thing that exists.
I disagree that it was capitalism that needed racism to be justified, since slavery is anti-capitalistic. But yes, fake "racial science" was used to justify slavery, that however was not the origin of racism. Roman and Greek and many other empires used ethnic/racial division to justify their oppression. Even the Mongols whose empire was "cool and accepting" by ancient empire standards still had strong sentiments of a Mongol race being different from others.