Anticolonial constitutions explicitly rejected race as a basis for hierarchy
Evidence
On the contrary, the spirit of anticolonial nationalism is that of the heart-rending Constitution of Makario Sakay’s short-lived Republic of Katagalugan (1902), which said, among other things: No Tagalog, born in this Tagalog archipelago, shall exalt any person above the rest because of his race or the colour of his skin; fair, dark, rich, poor, educated and ignorant – all are completely equal, and should be in one loób [inward spirit]. There may be differences in education, wealth, or appearance, but never in essential nature (pagkatao) and ability to serve a cause. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 579
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- SEED: The 1902 Republic of Katagalugan constitution is a striking, little-known document worth an article on how anticolonial nationalism explicitly defined itself against racial hierarchy.
- XREF: connects to: Anticolonial movements showed strikingly little reverse racism against colonizers — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 578; Some late-colonial officials publicly rejected the racial hierarchy of ruler and ruled; Enlightenment universalism made racial exclusion the sole unjustifiable barrier to free-colored citizenship (+1 more)
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- Some late-colonial officials publicly rejected the racial hierarchy of ruler and ruled
#corroborates(0.85) - Enlightenment universalism made racial exclusion the sole unjustifiable barrier to free-colored citizenship
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