Colonial race-thinking substitutes ethnological difference for kinship with non-whites

Evidence

The yellow man, the black man, is not our cousin at all. Here there is a real difference, a real distance, and a very great one: an ethnological distance. After all, civilization has never yet been made except by whites… If Europe becomes yellow, there will certainly be a regression, a new period of darkness and confusion, that is, another Middle Ages. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 106

Categorization

• DEFINE: Exemplifies the ‘ethnological distance’ construction the module needs — how Europeans read non-white people as categorically different rather than as kin, and how this distance becomes the warrant for excluding them from civilization.
• XREF: Directly parallels the Orientalism toolkit’s claim that the ‘Other’ is constructed at an unbridgeable distance; also foreshadows the biopolitics reading where races are positioned on a civilizational continuum by which exclusion is justified. — connects to: Colonial misreading of reciprocity stemmed from assuming its own norms universal; Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic; Colonial classifications imposed race categories that subjects never recognized as their own — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 650 (+2 more)

Related

• Colonial misreading of reciprocity stemmed from assuming its own norms universal (similarity 0.91)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian racial thought blended medieval stereotypes with European civilizational concepts (similarity 0.81)
• European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule (similarity 0.80)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.79)
• Racial difference had to be manufactured before Europeans seemed alien (similarity 0.79)
• Anticolonial movements showed strikingly little reverse racism against colonizers (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial scholars systematically reclassified Egypt as non-African to sever black achievement (similarity 0.78)
• European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. (similarity 0.78)
• Race versus ethnicity is a colonial legal construction (similarity 0.78)
• Modernity’s logic defines those outside Western norms as less than human (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial classifications imposed race categories that subjects never recognized as their own #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 650
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #expands (0.72)