Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics

Evidence

What my study challenges in Said’s work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a discourse of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians’ long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation. Even had he included such material, Said would have had to address other levels of often contradictory discourse, particularly in reference to the Sudan. As Ania Loomba writes, “‘Colonialism’ is not just something that happens from outside a country or a people, not just something that operates with the collusion of forces inside, but a version of it can be duplicated from within.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75 (#expands, 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; Sudanese identity was dramatized as a psychological complex explaining uncivilized behavior (+24 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.97)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.93)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian national self-exploration still stereotyped Nubians and Sudanese as blank buffoons (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted colonial stereotypes about Sudanese savagery to claim dominance (similarity 0.87)
• `Alï `abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture. (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese characters in Egyptian drama drew on stereo types from the 1870s. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #corroborates (0.95)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #corroborates (0.90)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. #expands (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135
• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized fake Sudanese voices instead of seeking real Sudanese allies #expands (0.60)