Displaced Sudanese women reclaim slavery as a badge of honor and identity

Evidence

Imäm al-Abd’s parents came from the group of people so easily caricatured as cartoons and humorous characters in Egyptian sketches and plays. It is with some irony, then, that the critic Abd al-Azïz al-Bishrï framed the talents of his old and long-deceased friend Imäm al-Abd for Egyptian society in an essay first broadcast on the radio, called “Fun and Humor: The Egyptian Joke in the Modern Period.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 787 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sudanese refugee women transformed the slave insult into a badge of courage; Freed Sudanese slaves voiced ambivalent gratitude toward Egyptian masters; Ownership of Sudanese slave women symbolized rightful custody of the Sudan. (+5 more)

Related

• Sudanese refugee women transformed the slave insult into a badge of courage (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt were caricatured as cartoons and comic characters (similarity 0.87)
• Freed Sudanese slaves voiced ambivalent gratitude toward Egyptian masters (similarity 0.85)
• Formerly enslaved Sudanese reclaimed a slur as a badge of courage (similarity 0.84)
• `Alï `abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian theater stereotyped Sudanese as undisciplined and libidinous (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial authorities silenced Sudanese agency by caricaturing Sudanese people (similarity 0.80)
• Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt (similarity 0.79)
• Sudanese slaves themselves contested imperial labels by asserting Arab identity over black identity (similarity 0.79)
• A Sudanese slave woman openly declared her own enslavement in an Egyptian court (similarity 0.79)
• Popular Egyptian culture stereotyped Sudanese as a servant class within the empire. (similarity 0.79)
• Sudanese former slaves mocked Egyptian captives and inverted the master-slave relation (similarity 0.78)
• Egyptian popular culture caricatured Sudanese people to build national unity (similarity 0.78)
• Egyptian anti-Sudanese stereotypes were replaced by silencing Sudanese self-assertion (similarity 0.78)
• Racial stereotypes of Sudanese remained unchanged across a century of colonial politics. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese slaves were blank slates onto which Egyptians and British projected competing colonial narratives #complicates (0.55)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt were caricatured as cartoons and comic characters #contradicts (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 787