Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism.
Evidence
The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; Britain justified its empire by discrediting Egyptian authority over Sudan; British colonial rule punished a Sudanese leader for lacking a defined tribal home. (+17 more)
Related
- Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.92)
- British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.91)
- Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.90)
- Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.90)
- Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.89)
- Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.89)
- British officials justified separating the Sudan from Egypt using racial and tribal characterizations (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.89)
- Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
- Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalists framed Sudan as family bound to Egyptian dictates, silencing Sudanese protest (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian print nationalism reached Sudan but students rejected British-engineered Sudanese identity. (similarity 0.87)
Broader Connections
- British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians
#corroborates(0.80) - Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan.
#expands(0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 - Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan
#expands(0.60) - Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese.
#corroborates(0.55) - Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese.
#corroborates(0.50) - Egyptian nationalism combined anticolonial critique with imperial condescension toward Sudan.
#corroborates(0.50) - Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese
#corroborates(0.50) - Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese
#corroborates(0.45) - Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan
#corroborates(0.45) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135 - Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery
#corroborates(0.45) - Britain effaced Egypt’s role in the Sudan by reattributing its history.
#corroborates(0.40) - Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan
#corroborates(0.35) - Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics
#corroborates(0.35) - Sudanese themselves compared Egyptian and British imperial techniques
#responds-to(0.30)