Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation

Evidence

If the “peculiar sensation” of an imposed “double-consciousness” is, as Du Bois held, the fate of those subject to a racialized identity, and is what Eduardo Glissant described the lot of those who endure a “schizoid self,” it was also something that middling colonizers like Valck shared, as well. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467 (#expands, via linked claim)

Of this: that at the very time when it most often mouths the word, the West has never been further from being able to live a true humanism-a humanism made to the measure of the world. … One of the values invented by the bourgeoisie in former times and launched throughout the world was man - and we have seen what has become of that. The other was the nation. It is a fact: the nation is a bourgeois phenomenon. … Exactly; but if I turn my attention from man to nations, I note that here too there is great danger; that colonial enterprise is to the modern world what Roman imperialism was to the ancient world: the prelude to Disaster and the forerunner of Catastrophe. … The truth is that this policy cannot but bring about the ruin of Europe itself, and that Europe, if it is not careful, will perish from the void it has created around itself. … They thought they were only slaughtering Indians, or Hndus, or South Sea islanders, or Africans. They have in fact overthrown, one after another, the ramparts behind which European civilization could have developed freely. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 247 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole; Colonized subjects are already embedded at the heart of imperial national identity.; Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (+9 more)

Related

• Colonial destruction of other cultures undermines the colonizer’s own civilization (similarity 0.87)
• Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial identity functions as a style shaping reality language and thought (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.82)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.82)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole (similarity 0.81)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism operates through objective role, not personal intention (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism operates as an internalized state of mind, not just external domination (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized subjects recognize the colonizer’s landscape as already-familiar and idealized (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial formation produces a felt sense of being out of place (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.80)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #expands (0.85)
• Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized #expands (0.78) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467
• Colonial destruction of other cultures undermines the colonizer’s own civilization #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 247
• Historical narratives can reverse which conquered people anchors national identity #exemplifies (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 138