Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences

Evidence

I understand ontology as that which is about the ascribed being or essence of things, the categories of things that are thought to exist or can exist in any specific domain, and the specific attributes assigned to them. Ontologies, as Ian Hacking writes, refer to “what comes into existence with the historical dynamics of naming.” Pursuing an “historical ontology,” then, demands something that philosophical study of ontology tout court might pursue but more often does not: identification of mutating assignments of essence and its predicates in specific time and place. On the face of it, the notion of essence implies stability and fixity, the enduring properties of people and things. But if there is anything we can learn from the colonial ontologies of racial kinds, it is that such “essences” were protean, not fixed, subject to reformulation again and again. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 45 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The West’s entitlement to own the nonwhite world rests on defining it as subhuman; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421; Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 149 (+10 more)

Related

• Colonial racial essences were protean and repeatedly reformulated, not fixed (similarity 0.85)
• Spanish authorities suspended racial hierarchies to promote colonial settlement. (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialists freeze sociological differences into fixed biological natures to bar change (similarity 0.80)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Bantu Philosophy challenged the colonial paternalism underpinning mission methods (similarity 0.80)
• Racism is a constitutive, foundational element of colonialism rather than an incidental detail. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Colonial racial essences were protean and repeatedly reformulated, not fixed #contradicts (0.85) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 45
• Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonial racial superiority must be actively believed to be maintained #expands (0.78) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 102
• Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 149
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike #qualifies (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 52
• Colonial racism welded dynastic legitimacy to national community by universalizing inherited superiority #expands (0.72)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized #expands (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59
• Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals #expands (0.70)