Colonial characterizations were repurposed by Indos to serve their own political ends

Evidence

Characterizations of people and things not only lodge in the tenacious hold of words: they burrow into bodies and then re-emerge as resurrected knowledge, upholding oppositional positions as they take on new politi- cal forms. Such was the tactic of the Indischen Bond in 1904 that took as its task representation of the Indo-European population with a platform based on acquiring land for them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is the core epistemic-anxiety theme of the reader’s project — how colonial knowledge categories get recycled and weaponized by the colonized — connects to the ‘resurrected knowledge’ idea in Stoler’s own Foucauldian archive work.
• QUESTION: Worth tracking how this ‘burrowing into bodies and re-emerging’ mechanic of category-recycling plays out in other colonial archives and postcolonial nations.

Related

• Racial stereotypes repatriated through colonized authors sustain colonial hierarchy (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial discourse framed poor Indos as a biological racial threat (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Indo activists explicitly renounced colonial stereotypes of docility #corroborates (0.60) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 992
• Colonial discourse framed poor Indos as a biological racial threat #qualifies (0.40) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1005
• Even higher wartime death rates of Indos were blamed on their weaker moral fibre #corroborates (0.40)