Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike

Evidence

No human contact, but relations of domination and submission which turn the colonizing man into a class-room monitor, an army sergeant, a prison guard, a slave driver, and the indigenous man into an instrument of production. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 52

Categorization

• XREF: Césaire’s point that colonialism dehumanizes the colonizer as well as the colonized anticipates Fanon and postcolonial theory’s account of mutual distortion — a mechanism that recurs in analyses of racialized exclusion. — connects to: Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves; Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences; Colonial slave codes legally defined enslaved humans as chattel (+11 more)

Related

• Colonial peoples suffered the same dehumanizing treatment as ancient slaves (similarity 0.86)
• Colonization corrupts the colonizer, who becomes inured to atrocity (similarity 0.85)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.84)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.83)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.83)
• The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. (similarity 0.83)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.81)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #corroborates (0.85)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation #expands (0.85)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.78)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #expands (0.75)