Egyptian writers framed Egyptian rule as a civilizing force over a wild Sudan

Evidence

However, it is just as anachronistic to deny race consciousness in cultures confronting British or French or German imperialism in the late nineteenth century, when political, cultural, and sci- entific definitions of the word race were being coined. … The appellations and categories of race imposed by the empire were either accepted, denied, translated, or redirected, but they were always provocative. In late-nineteenth-century Egypt, writers and nationalists were acutely aware of the discourse on race being conducted in western Europe, and they used it to frame their various perspectives about the Sudan and its people. … There were many nuances to certain terms: abïd (slave), barbarï (Berber or barbarian), nübï (Nubian), arabï (Arab), and südänï, to name a few that bore particular significance in the hierarchy of political and economic relations from one end of the Nile Valley to the other. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian writers defended imperialism as beneficial and humane; Egyptian nationalist writers used fictional Sudanese voices to claim sovereignty over the Sudan; Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (+11 more)

Related

• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalists argued only Islam could pacify the recalcitrant Sudanese. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian writers blended medieval Black stereotypes with imported European power terminology (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists deployed racial stereotypes about Sudanese domestics (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian cultural nationalism modernized its own image but kept black Sudanese stereotypes frozen. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian intellectuals increasingly racialized identity against African societies (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism imported from France became racialized against the Sudanese (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (similarity 0.84)
• Some Egyptian writers framed imperialism as a civilizing benefit for the colonized. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #exemplifies (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #exemplifies (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists actively used European race discourse to frame views on Sudan #corroborates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 98