Anticolonial movements showed strikingly little reverse racism against colonizers

Evidence

The argument adumbrated thus far can also be pursued from the side of colonial populations. For, the pronouncements of certain colonial ideologues aside, it is remarkable how little that dubious entity known as ‘reverse racism’ manifested itself in the anticolonial movements. In this matter it is easy to be deceived by language. There is, for example, a sense in which the Javanese word londo (derived from Hollander or Nederlander) meant not only ‘Dutch’ but ‘whites.’ But the derivation itself shows that, for Javanese peasants, who scarcely ever encountered any ‘whites’ but Dutch, the two meanings effectively overlapped. Similarly, in French colonial territories, ‘les blancs’ meant rulers whose Frenchness was indistinguishable from their whiteness. In neither case, so far as I know, did londo or blanc either lose caste or breed derogatory secondary distinctions. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 578

Categorization

• XREF: This directly scaffolds the Islamophobia readings on colonial racial categories — the point that colonial whiteness was inseparable from the ruler-role prefigures how Islamophobia constructs Muslims as a homogeneous racialized category. — connects to: Anticolonial constitutions explicitly rejected race as a basis for hierarchy — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 579
• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘reverse racism’ as a dubious, largely-mythical entity and shows how colonial ‘whiteness’ was a positional category tied to being a ruler.

Related

• Anticolonial constitutions explicitly rejected race as a basis for hierarchy (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial race-thinking substitutes ethnological difference for kinship with non-whites (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Anticolonial constitutions explicitly rejected race as a basis for hierarchy #corroborates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 579