Colonial governance positioned subjects through intertwined racial and gendered classification.

Evidence

Bodies are governed, colonially and postcolonially, through their constitutive positioning as racially engendered and in the gendering of their racial configuration. White men enacted the “dirty” governance of colonialism; white women, excluded from the formalities of colonial governance almost altogether, in very large part were excluded also from the colonies, or from those colonial spaces least like Europe. Largely ripped from traditional forms of labor, “non-European” men were put to work manually, where they were employed at all, under grueling, debilitating, ultimately crippling conditions. Under historicist regimes, namely, those colonial forms of governance predicated on seeing the local inhabitants not as inherently inferior but historically immature and so in principle capable of development, the more educated indigenous middle and educated classes of men would be employed at lower levels of local colonial administration, their sons ultimately becoming the nationalist leaders of the decolonizing movements a half century or more later. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1661

Categorization

• XREF: Gendered racialization here complements vault claims about racial formation as intersectional, indexing the colonial-specific gendering of race. — connects to: Colonial racial categories were shuffled across visual and verbal criteria — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 228; Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516; Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. (+7 more)
• QUESTION: The ‘historicist regimes’ claim — colonized elites employed in lower administration become nationalist leaders — is a useful mechanism worth checking against decolonization scholarship.

Broader Connections

• Colonial racial categories were shuffled across visual and verbal criteria #expands (0.90) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 228
• Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516
• Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured #expands (0.85)
• Colonial classifications imposed race categories that subjects never recognized as their own #qualifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 650
• Colonial rule installed subject races as agents within colonial machinery #expands (0.80) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 44
• Racial states form and persist through relational positioning in a global colonial arrangement. #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1744
• Colonial administrators struggled to fix race terminology to specific social kinds #complicates (0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 344