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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.