Colonial rule installed subject races as agents within colonial machinery

Evidence

Though colonized, they came to function as junior clerks in the juggernaut that was the civilizing mission. Without being part of the colonial rulers, they came to be integrated into the machinery of colonial rule, as agents, whether in the state apparatus or in the marketplace. As such they came to be seen as both instruments and beneficiaries of colonialism, however coerced the instrumentality and petty the benefits. Though part of the colonized population, the subject races received preferential treatment under the law. In contrast, subject ethnicities were set apart and literally sat upon, legally. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 44

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the key distinction between ‘subject races’ (integrated as junior agents) and ‘subject ethnicities’ (legally suppressed) — a central analytic frame for the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial policing hardened fluid status groups into fixed racial identities. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 50; Colonial governance positioned subjects through intertwined racial and gendered classification. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1661; Tribal classification served rulers by manufacturing compliant chiefly authorities. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 571 (+1 more)