Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other.

Evidence

Creole representation and practice functioned in the Caribbean as the mechanism for inserting principles of divide and rule into colonial society. These principles were essential for the maintenance of colonial order and for colonial exploitation. Creolite functioned as a mechanism for the institutionalization of difference between the Creole and non-Creole, locating the latter outside the boundaries of Caribbean society. The practice of differential allocation of value, rights, and privilege between the Creole and non-Creole became uncontested. It acted to legitimize white privilege. At the same time it hid the commonalities of interests shared by the Creole and non-Creole populations of the colonized. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3200

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Parallel to the way sumptuary norms in the modesty panics article split classes and legitimized hierarchy while rendering common interests invisible.
• XREF: connects to: British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556; Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1481; Creolization dissolves the original purity of the categories being mixed — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 468