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that the word was attested in the English language a century earlier and in French even earlier than that, and that as a concept, it's been around for quite a bit longer still.
If you mean race as a concept, then yes. However, the term "racist" and "racism" as it's used in this day and age has its roots in Trotsky's work. I have yet to find an origin from before 1930 that suits this very definition.