European colonial discourse imposed invented Jew and Moor identities on peoples globally

Evidence

Nonetheless, it is clear from this analysis that the imposition of the invented identity of a known other on colonized peoples in the form of the Jew or the Moor with attendant invented languages, cultures, and religions was a feature of orientalist colonial discourse. This imposition not only involved colonial countries like Britain and America but others such as France and Germany and served imperial needs throughout the world from Japan to Quebec from Peru to Zululand. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 340

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Said’s orientalism insight to a global scale including non-Western imperial actors. — connects to: Shakespeare’s Moor and Jew characters encoded pre-modern racialized difference. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 27