Colonial ideology and law jointly constructed the Tutsi as nonindigenous civilizers

Evidence

In a process that has remained for the most part invisible, “the Tutsi were constructed by colonial ideology as well as law as nonindigenous Hamites,” a distinct “race … both civilizing and alien” (28, 89). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 46

Categorization

• XREF: The Hamitic hypothesis parallels the ‘civilizing mission’ ideology deployed on Jews in Algeria and elsewhere — an echo of the book’s core Jew/Arab enmity thesis. — connects to: A historical Tutsi rebel label evolved into a dehumanizing cockroach epithet for all Tutsis — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 84; Hutu Power manufactured a unified Tutsi enemy spanning within and without Rwanda. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 65; Belief in a transnational Tutsi extermination conspiracy was manufactured to justify Hutu massacres — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 76 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did the Hamitic hypothesis travel — from biblical scholarship to colonial administration in Rwanda? The intellectual genealogy is opaque here.