Egyptian writers conceded Europe authority over artistic standards.

Evidence

In fact, race is an important marker of difference for all four writers, who painstakingly noted racial differences in skin color, sexual behavior, and religious attitudes among the Sudanese. Sometimes the writers seem to have plucked these concepts from medieval literature about blacks and Sudanese, but more often they mixed stereotypes about blacks with new terminology about power and concepts of civilization translated from European texts. As this chapter shows, however, al-Tahtawï’s perceptions were different from those of the other three writers, reflecting, I think, a hardening perspective of Egyptian intellectuals about the nature of Egyptian identity and its measure against African societies. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 137 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian writers measured their cultural legitimacy against European canonical standards.; Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 137; Egyptian writers defended imperialism as beneficial and humane

Related

• Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian racial thought blended medieval stereotypes with European civilizational concepts (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian writers measured their cultural legitimacy against European canonical standards. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians realized Europe ranked them closer to Africa than to Europe in civilizational terms (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian writers in 1919 saw themselves as mere imitators of Europe. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian intellectuals defended Islamic slavery as inherently milder than Western slavery. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian intellectuals studied British imperial success to emulate it. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians grew uneasy that Europeans ranked Egypt as African and colonizable. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology #complicates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 137
• Egyptian writers defended imperialism as beneficial and humane #expands (0.50)