Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions

Evidence

Unable to stand up to all the demands, the white man sloughs off his responsibilities. I have a name for this procedure: the racial distribution of guilt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373 (#expands, via linked claim)

For the specialist in colonial affairs, veterans and the “developed” natives are the commandos who are entrusted with destroying the cultural resistance of a colonized country. The regions are accordingly classified in terms of the number of developed “active units,” in other words, agents of erosion of the national culture that they contain. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial verbalen encoded a genealogy of administrative precedence.; Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373; Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (+2 more)

Related

• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.94)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture (similarity 0.87)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial officials blamed elite ambitions rather than taxation for the tax revolt (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial governance positioned subjects through intertwined racial and gendered classification. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. #expands (0.75)
• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244