British officials justified separating the Sudan from Egypt using racial and tribal characterizations

Evidence

While the majority of the people of Egypt are comparatively homogeneous, the Sudan is divided between Arabs and Negroes, and within each of these two great racial groups there are a number of races and tribes differing widely from one another and often mutually antagonistic. The Arabs of the Sudan speak dialects of the same language as the people of Egypt and are united to them by the bond of religion. Islam, moreover, is spreading even among the non-Arab races of the Sudan. These influences mitigate in various degrees, but they do not overcome the antagonism of the two countries, which rankling memories of Egyptian misgovernment in the past have done much to intensify. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 831

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Shows how racialized categorization was deployed to define distinct political statuses.
• XREF: Fits the reader’s comparative coloniality framework: same British imperial machinery using racial taxonomy to produce different colonial configurations.

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• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.83)
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