Egyptian nationalists rejected any racial identification with Africans being colonized

Evidence

As the letter writer makes clear, Africa haunted politicized Egyptians. Echoing the fears mentioned by the historian Muhammad Sabry, the idea of colonization that threatened Egyptians was a also a racial construction in which they were deemed unequals. Nationalists fended off any identification with those who were more “properly” the objects of European imperialism, and who were, in their minds, Africans. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 826

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did Egyptian nationalism’s anti-African self-positioning affect the actual Sudan colony’s governance and its residents? Direct relevance to reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparative aim.
• ADDENDUM: Parallels the dress-moral-panic framing: identity politics of who counts as ‘properly’ subject to colonial domination has a class/racial-superiority dimension crossing over into boundaries.