Colonial questionnaires used lifestyle questions pejoratively to assess racial belonging

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• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.81)
• Caribbean questions returned to Hall through Britain’s migrant black community (similarity 0.80)
• Valck’s critique of planters still affirmed colonial racial hierarchies (similarity 0.79)
• Survey questions covertly surveilled the racial mixing and moral habits of the poor (similarity 0.78)
• The survey mixed elite racial stereotypes with testimonies of actual material need (similarity 0.78)
• Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.78)
• French colonial law originally granted freed people full citizenship without racial distinction (similarity 0.78)