Egyptian nationalism and colonialism became linked through racial difference

Evidence

Shaykh al-Tahtawï inherited his view of the Sudan and its people, who not only were burdened with the ages-old stereotype of them as wild and savage but also were the subjects of many explorations and studies and were conceptualized as a subject people. He was the most politicized of the four voyagers of this study, because of his particularly energetic participation in Muhammad Alï's program of social reform for Egypt, and because of the perspectives about national community and identity that he gained from his experiences in France, which he promoted eloquently and forcefully in Egypt. From Paris, al-Tahtawï brought home a new lexicon to describe his own country, the most powerful being al-watan, his complicated word for the nation and its community and the bond that had to be forged between the two. His deep and abiding love for Egypt was rivaled only by his profound disgust with the Sudan and the Sudanese. His long poem about the Sudan imparts a kind of knowledge different from that shared by the other three voyagers. His master work, Manähij al-albäb al-misriya fï mabähij al-adäb al-asriya, offers a more politicized sense of Egypt's cultural geography. His particular poem about the Sudan and its people also demonstrates how the process of colonialism and nationalism came to be racialized, and how an increasing sense of racial difference could be incorporated into a sense of political and cultural boundaries. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing.; Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other; Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese (+22 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.92)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.91)
• Sudanese nationalism drew on blacks long considered slaves (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian acceptance of Nubians and Sudanese hinged on their remaining ignorant and subordinate. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptians resented Ottoman-Egyptian superiority while asserting their own rank over Nubians. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted corporeal metaphors for the loss of the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians were surprised to learn Sudan saw them as arrogant (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians blamed the Sudanese ‘African world’ for slavery’s existence. (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #expands (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #corroborates (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #corroborates (0.75)
• Egyptian nationalism was forged through a triangular rather than binary colonial relationship #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese #corroborates (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies #corroborates (0.70)
• Race words in the Nile Valley shifted meaning as Egyptian-Sudanese relations became colonial #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.70)
• Early Egyptian nationalism fused Sudanese racial denigration with Nile Valley unity #corroborates (0.65)
• The colonized colonizer duality gave Egyptian nationalists a Janus-like worldview #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian colonial writing linked Africans to Arabs’ own pre-Islamic past #expands (0.55)