Egyptian nationalist leaders adopted consciously racializing language by the early 1900s.

Evidence

It also investigates their discussion of race and racial discrimination, showing how important to these leaders concepts of racial identity had become, and how conscious they were of the racializing language and policies of the British administration. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s comparison — shows Egyptian nationalists internalizing British racial frameworks to argue for ‘unity of the Nile Valley’; parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ theme of class/race markers doing political signaling.