Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence

Evidence

Far from seeking to ‘induct the lower classes into political life,’ one key factor initially spurring the drive for independence from Madrid, in such important cases as Venezuela, Mexico and Peru, was the fear of ‘lower-class’ political mobilizations: to wit, Indian or Negro-slave uprisings. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 216

Categorization

• XREF: The creole elite’s fear of the enslaved and indigenous as an internal enemy anticipates later postcolonial and Islamophobia-theory readings of racialized citizenship as exclusionary — the nation defined against its internal ‘Other.’ — connects to: Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 720; Early USA was just another creole-led revolutionary state, sometimes more reactionary. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 787; Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements (+3 more)

Related

• Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World (similarity 0.87)
• Fear of slave uprisings helped drive Latin American independence (similarity 0.86)
• Madrid’s tightened control and immigration fueled creole resentment (similarity 0.84)
• The creole nationalism that opposed Spain nonetheless embraced racism toward non-whites (similarity 0.84)
• Early USA was just another creole-led revolutionary state, sometimes more reactionary. (similarity 0.83)
• Latin American independence was led by landowners, not middle classes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The creole nationalism that opposed Spain nonetheless embraced racism toward non-whites #qualifies (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 276
• Madrid’s tightened control and immigration fueled creole resentment #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 219
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements #expands (0.72)
• Anti-colonial revolt gets dismissed as neurotic madness rather than political action #responds-to (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 159