Därfüri tribes occupying the same land were ranked by perceived character

Evidence

Keeping contact minimal between Egyptians and Sudanese in his accounts of the Sudan, the author also set up a racial scale by which he measured Sudanese tribes, which depended on how savage their customs were. People of Sennär, for example, practiced a frightening magic, in which they could turn themselves into wolves.Though such devilish practices were not appropriate for discussion, the author wrote coyly, presenting them in his book made certain his readers knew that people from Sennär were not at all like Egyptians. The blackest of all tribes, the Dinka and the Shilluk, lived way beyond the pale, worshiping pagan idols and wearing hardly any clothes. And yet, page after page, the author asserted that indissoluble links existed between Egypt and the Sudan based on Islam. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 752 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Därfüri tribes were ranked aesthetically in Arab travel writing; Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 752

Related

• Därfüri tribes were ranked aesthetically in Arab travel writing (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.90)
• The Sudan’s ethnic divisions outweighed its religious and linguistic ties to Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.81)
• Slave-descended Sudanese were deemed too lowly to speak for the nation (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians were surprised to learn Sudan saw them as arrogant (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians resented Ottoman-Egyptian superiority while asserting their own rank over Nubians. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian acceptance of Nubians and Sudanese hinged on their remaining ignorant and subordinate. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian-oriented Sudanese press treated African cultural elements as obstacles to Arab glory. (similarity 0.79)
• British officials justified separating the Sudan from Egypt using racial and tribal characterizations (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.79)
• Arab observers ranked Sudanese tribes by women’s beauty as a moral marker (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian writers stereotyped Sudanese as comic servants despite demanding realism. (similarity 0.79)
• Al-Tahtawi portrayed Sudanese as racially inferior, beast-like, and blackened (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Därfüri tribes were ranked aesthetically in Arab travel writing #expands (0.85)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 752