Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it

Evidence

It was the colonialist’s frenzy to unveil the Algerian woman, it was his gamble on winning the battle of the veil at whatever cost, that were to provoke the native’s bristling resistance. The deliberately aggressive intentions of the colonialist with respect to the haïk gave a new life to this dead element of the Algerian cultural stock—dead because stabilized, without any progressive change in form or color. We here recognize one of the laws of the psychology of colonization. In an initial phase, it is the action, the plans of the occupier that determine the centers of resistance around which a people’s will to survive becomes organized. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 164 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates negritude. To the colonialist offensive against the veil, the colonized opposes the cult of the veil. What was an undifferentiated element in a homogeneous whole acquires a taboo character, and the attitude of a given Algerian woman with respect to the veil will be constantly related to her overall attitude with respect to the foreign occupation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 164; Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable; Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (+12 more)

Related

• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.95)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.89)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture (similarity 0.80)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.80)
• The oppressed group’s apparent weakness becomes a revolutionary advantage against the enemy (similarity 0.80)
• The veil shifted from passive tradition into an active revolutionary instrument (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 164
• Imperialism itself generated the resistance and revolution that opposed it #corroborates (0.80)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine #corroborates (0.70)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable #expands (0.60)
• Defenders reframed a colonial-inherited practice as indigenous African heritage #complicates (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 4490
• A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance #expands (0.55)
• Indigenous survival required a culture of resistance that blended assimilation and defiance. #qualifies (0.50) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 189