Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods

Evidence

I am not exaggerating. It is M. Mannoni speaking: … Treading very classical paths, these Madagascans transformed their saints into martyrs, their saviors into scapegoats; they wanted to wash their imaginary sins in the blood of their own gods. They were prepared, even at this price, or rather only at this price, to reverse their attitude once more. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 163

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: How did Mannoni’s sacrifice/salvation vocabulary anticipate later formulations of ‘suicide bombing’ pathologies in Islamophobia discourse?
• XREF: connects to: Co-opting indigenous cosmology makes colonial rule sacred and rebellion sacrilegious — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 147; Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161; Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-colonial revolt gets dismissed as neurotic madness rather than political action (similarity 0.84)
• Co-opting indigenous cosmology makes colonial rule sacred and rebellion sacrilegious (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess #expands (0.82)
• Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive #corroborates (0.80)
• Religion and myth armed enslaved peoples for eventual impossible rebellion #corroborates (0.78)