Colonial subject races were integrated as agents while being denied citizenship

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Nevertheless with all my strength I refuse to accept that amputation. I feel in myself a soul as immense as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers, my chest has the power to expand without limit. I am a master and I am advised to adopt the humility of the cripple. Yesterday, awakening to the world, I saw the sky turn upon itself utterly and wholly. I wanted to rise, but the disemboweled silence fell back upon me, its wings paralyzed. Without responsibility, straddling Nothingness and Infinity, I began to weep. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial racial mixture was permitted locally but barred from the metropole — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1320; Colonial policing hardened fluid status groups into fixed racial identities. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 50; Colonial rule installed subject races as agents within colonial machinery — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 44 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rule installed subject races as agents within colonial machinery #expands (0.95) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 44
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #complicates (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556