British semicolonial rule racialized Egyptians and denied them native status in their own land

Evidence

Sabry’s choice of words reveals how powerful the stigma of race had become under these semicolonial circumstances: not only did the British treat Egyptians like blacks and possess all the expectations of subservience inherent in that concept, they denied them the right of being native in their own land. In imposing a color stigma on Egyptians and making them black, Sabry believed that the British had deracinated them in their own homeland, as if they were servants imported from Africa for the pleasure of the British occupiers, or, to put it more ironically, as if the Egyptians were like the Sudanese. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 821

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader framework of shades of coloniality in Africa, and specifically positions Egyptians as resisting being lumped with ‘proper’ African colonial subjects.
• SEED: Angle: how colonial rule manufactures racial hierarchies among the colonized to justify gradations of subjugation.