Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally

Evidence

Sanüa thus provides a reliable example of a duality around which Egyptian nationalism was beginning to take shape. This dichotomous approach to empire was articulated in racial terms. Although Sanüa was fiercely critical of Great Britain’s imperialism in India and feared the same fate for Egypt, his work reveals an intimate empire, in which the Sudanese were the servants, guards, and doorkeepers of Egyptian society. Although the Sudan itself was depicted as a wild and untamed land, Sudanese residents in Egypt were often portrayed as docile, fearful, and in need of Egyptian guidance. As the following two excerpts show, Sanü`a saw more than just a geographic border between the Sudan and Egypt: he saw a bridge of dependency as well. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s interest in different shades of coloniality — Egypt as colonized by Britain yet itself acting colonial toward Sudan, echoed in Black Marxism’s account of hierarchical internal empires.

Related

• Egyptian nationalist politics challenged British rule but not internal social hierarchies (similarity 0.95)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists condemned British empire while legitimizing Egyptian empire over Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalism and colonialism became linked through racial difference (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted colonial stereotypes about Sudanese savagery to claim dominance (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. #corroborates (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 753
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #corroborates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771
• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #expands (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726