‘Solidarity among whites’ in colonies mirrored trans-state aristocratic class solidarity

Evidence

Another instructive indication of the aristocratic or pseudo-aristocratic derivation of colonial racism was the typical ‘solidarity among whites,’ which linked colonial rulers from different national metropoles, whatever their internal rivalries and conflicts. This solidarity, in its curious trans-state character, reminds one instantly of the class solidarity of Europe’s nineteenth-century aristocracies, mediated through each other’s hunting-lodges, spas, and ballrooms; and of that brotherhood of ‘officers and gentlemen,’ which in the Geneva convention guaranteeing privileged treatment to captured enemy officers, as opposed to partisans or civilians, has an agreeably twentieth-century expression. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 577

Categorization

• XREF: The trans-state white solidarity across national metropoles is a mechanism relevant to how race operates above and beyond nation — scaffold for global Islamophobia networks. — connects to: White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427; Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 571; Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 228

Related

• White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial whites misread multi-ethnic solidarity that would someday outnumber them. (similarity 0.79)
• Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571
• White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations #qualifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427
• Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves #qualifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 228