Egyptian stereotypes of Sudanese otherness predate Muhammad Ali’s conquest

Evidence

While the figures of Britain and Egypt had changed between 1881 and 1925, stereotypes of the Sudan— oversexed, underclothed, and beyond the structures of either British or Egyptian morality—remained powerful and surprisingly unchanged. As I show in this study, such stereotypes had existed even before Muhammad `Alï’s armies conquered the Sudan in 1821, and they obviously continued to resonate with Egyptian readers and audiences through the 1920s. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1058