British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed.
Evidence
British modernization, as Salim Tamari has pointed out, accordingly transformed a complexly secular, cosmopolitan, broadly communitarian order under Ottoman rule – especially in cities such as Jerusalem and ports such as Jaffa and Haifa (but also more regionally in Beirut and Damascus) – into a more segregating, ethnoracially and religiously discrete and divided set of communities in contest with each other for resources, space, and political favor. Classic colonial divide and rule, ethnoracially fueled. … In what follows, I am less identifying Israel as representing the apartheid state as I am tracing the ways in which, in conception and practice, it has come not just to embody apartheid elements but to represent a novel form of the racial state more generally. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s central question: British divide-and-rule transformed interethnic coexistence into racialized segregation, a colonial mechanism replicable across axes, not specific to race. — connects to: British colonial rule converted heterogeneous Ottoman communities into segregated ethnoracial polities — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556; Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 45; Colonial rule transformed fluid ethnic distinctions into rigid binary identities. (+8 more)
- DEFINE: Defines ‘racial palestinianization’ as the transformation of heterogeneity into assertedly homogeneous ethnoracial polity.
Broader Connections
- British colonial rule converted heterogeneous Ottoman communities into segregated ethnoracial polities
#corroborates(1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556 - Colonial rule transformed fluid ethnic distinctions into rigid binary identities.
#corroborates(0.92) - Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture
#expands(0.85) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 45 - Colonial law invented ethnicity by politicizing previously cultural communities
#corroborates(0.85) - Colonial law transmuted cultural communities into political ones
#corroborates(0.85) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 39 - British rule deliberately fanned caste and communal divisions in India
#exemplifies(0.80) - Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1481 - The British invented martial race categories to divide and control Indian populations
#exemplifies(0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 485 - Postcolonial states inherit colonial divisions that block formation of civic unity
#expands(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 314 - Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3200