Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia

Evidence

For the specialist in colonial affairs, veterans and the “developed” natives are the commandos who are entrusted with destroying the cultural resistance of a colonized country. The regions are accordingly classified in terms of the number of developed “active units,” in other words, agents of erosion of the national culture that they contain. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial ethnic categories broke down under acts both personal and political; Colonial ‘secrets’ were often public knowledge to those living alongside them; Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21 (+16 more)

Related

• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture (similarity 0.89)
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule runs on force and manufactures a servile local elite (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial rule itself generated the nationalist intelligentsia that overthrew it (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation #expands (0.55)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421