Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race

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

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘mental miscegenation’ concept maps directly onto the racialized-selfhood literature the Islamophobia readings build on, and onto Fanon’s colonial psychology. — connects to: The British framed colonial rule as character formation rather than mere training — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 527; Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire; Abolition without a universal rights frame seeded England’s racial doctrines (+8 more)

Related

• Racial ideology entered English statecraft through governing India, not the colonies (similarity 0.87)
• Abolition without a universal rights frame seeded England’s racial doctrines (similarity 0.86)
• The British framed colonial rule as character formation rather than mere training (similarity 0.84)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.83)
• British racism forecloses full naturalization even for assimilated nonwhite writers (similarity 0.82)
• British administrative aloofness fostered belief in permanent racial superiority over subject peoples (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.79)
• British liberal thinkers racialized Indians through infantilization without using the word race (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• British administrative aloofness fostered belief in permanent racial superiority over subject peoples #epitomizes (0.82)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #contradicts (0.80)
• Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion #qualifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 63
• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #corroborates (0.72)