Colonial policing already ranked Arabs below Martinicans as lesser natives

Evidence

How many times have I been stopped in broad daylight by the police, who took me for an Arab, and when they discovered my origins, they hastily apologized: “We know full well a Martinican is different from an Arab.” I would protest violently, but I was told: “You don’t know them.” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 184

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete 1940s instance of the color-coded hierarchy of races the reader has catalogued in complaints-about-immodesty and moral-panic material.
• SEED: Angle: ‘You don’t know them’ as the archetypal sentence of delegated dehumanization — how middling subjects are deputized into the racial hierarchy of their rulers.