Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century.
Evidence
But the political and historical context within which nineteenth-century Orientalism took shape does beg the question: what sort of relationship was there between European colonialism and Orientalism? — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201
Categorization
- QUESTION: The author poses the direction-of-causation question between colonialism and Orientalism that the rest of the chapter investigates.
- XREF: connects to: The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s; Nineteenth-century Orientalism traded Enlightenment universalism for a hierarchy of civilizations. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 193; Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Nineteenth-century Europe traded Enlightenment universalism for imperialist superiority
#complicates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 119 - The Middle East itself is a product of Orientalist construction.
#expands(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161 - Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge
#exemplifies(0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89 - Diminished Muslim threat let British observers admire Mughal culture despite Orientalist negative stereotypes.
#qualifies(0.40) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 52