Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies
Evidence
Ibrahïm Fawzï may have been the most honest in his acceptance of the contradiction inherent in the colonized colonizer, but nothing offended him as deeply as being identified as the slave of a Sudanese. Ahmad Lutfï al-Sayyid was the most candid in his dis- cussion of racial prejudice in Egypt, but for him as well, the Sudan and the Sudanese had no past independent of Egypt. Even the beautiful voice of Muhammad Imäm al-
Abd could not be heard without the interfering fact of his parents’ enslavement. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.90)
- Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian intellectuals who criticized European racism still denied the Sudan any independent past (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.86)
- Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.86)
- Egyptian nationalists argued only Islam could pacify the recalcitrant Sudanese. (similarity 0.86)
- Egyptian national self-exploration still stereotyped Nubians and Sudanese as blank buffoons (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics
#expands(0.85) - Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other
#corroborates(0.85) - Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese
#corroborates(0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063 - Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese
#corroborates(0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135 - Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan
#corroborates(0.80) - Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese
#corroborates(0.80) - Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan
#expands(0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 99 - Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally
#corroborates(0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316 - Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology
#expands(0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 137 - Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa
#corroborates(0.75) - Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century.
#expands(0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 113 - Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery
#exemplifies(0.70) - Egyptians read black skin as contradicting cultural and linguistic Egyptianness
#expands(0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 788