Kabyle women’s non-veiling became a colonial propaganda tool to divide Arabs and Berbers

Evidence

We do not here consider rural areas where the woman is often unveiled. Nor do we take into account the Kabyle woman who, except in the large cities, never uses a veil. For the tourist who rarely ventures into the mountains, the Arab woman is first of all one who wears a veil. This originality of the Kabyle woman constitutes, among others, one of the themes of colonialist propaganda bringing out the opposition between Arabs and Berbers. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 239

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Arabic term barbarï referred to Nubians, not Berbers; Algerian Berbers were mostly Arabised by 1954 but remained a warlike, unruly people; Colonial divide-and-rule pitted Kabyles against Arabs in Algeria (+5 more)

Related

• Algerian Berbers were mostly Arabised by 1954 but remained a warlike, unruly people (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial divide-and-rule pitted Kabyles against Arabs in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial administration targeted starving women first with anti-veil propaganda. (similarity 0.81)
• French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy (similarity 0.80)
• French unveiling campaigns aimed to demoralize Algerian men, not liberate women (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.79)
• The oppressed-Muslim-woman narrative was fabricated to justify colonial invasion. (similarity 0.79)
• French unveiling campaigns functioned as gendered warfare to demoralize Algerian men. (similarity 0.79)
• Forced unveiling in colonial Algeria backfired by politicizing the veil (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial feminism used saving Muslim women to justify imperialism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 150
• Colonial feminism used saving Muslim women to justify imperialism #exemplifies (0.60)
• The oppressed-Muslim-woman narrative was fabricated to justify colonial invasion. #exemplifies (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 164
• Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 132
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #exemplifies (0.45)