Abolition without a universal rights frame seeded England’s racial doctrines

Evidence

But the important thing is that we see a long-range (30 years!) policy, consciously formulated and pursued, to turn ‘idolaters,’ not so much into Christians, as into people culturally English, despite their irremediable colour and blood. A sort of mental miscegenation is intended — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 363 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: England’s imperial geography forced race into its nationalism as a linking device; English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism; Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 363 (+3 more)

Related

• Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race (similarity 0.86)
• Racial ideology entered English statecraft through governing India, not the colonies (similarity 0.85)
• England’s imperial geography forced race into its nationalism as a linking device (similarity 0.80)
• British racism forecloses full naturalization even for assimilated nonwhite writers (similarity 0.79)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• England’s imperial geography forced race into its nationalism as a linking device #complicates (0.80)
• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism #expands (0.80)
• Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race #corroborates (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 363
• British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality #expands (0.75)
• Race persisted as epistemic currency even after its formal abolition as legal criterion #complicates (0.75)
• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule #expands (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571