Colonial racism led some humiliated Jews to identify with their humiliators against Algerians
Evidence
Finally, colonial Algeria being an eminently racist country, the different mechanisms of racist psychology are to be found there. Thus the Jew, despised and excluded by the European, is quite happy on certain occasions to identify himself with those who humiliate him to humiliate the Algerian in turn. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 501
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Fanon’s account of the psychological mechanisms of colonial racism in Black Skin, White Masks, where the colonized subject turns the received contempt downward. — connects to: Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing.; Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim; Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517 (+2 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 501
Related
- Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing. (similarity 0.92)
- Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.85)
- Fanon asserted that Jews were not categorically aligned with colonialism (similarity 0.85)
- Fanon finds solidarity with Jews through shared racialized suffering (similarity 0.85)
- A Jew who experienced anti-Semitism can still be racist toward Negroes (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.81)
- The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. (similarity 0.79)
- Algerian colonial racism was neither institutionalized like apartheid nor miscegenated like Brazil (similarity 0.78)
- Three-quarters of Algerian Jews were Arabized natives who considered themselves Algerians (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.78)
- The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.78)
- Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial apparatuses manufacture inferiority in the colonized, leading them to serve colonial agency. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems
#expands(0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517 - Colonial life inoculated even leftist settlers with unconscious racism
#expands(0.45) - Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim
#expands(0.40)