Lorimer equated national and domestic economic hierarchy with racial hierarchy

Evidence

Colonial racism was a major element in that conception of ‘Empire’ which attempted to weld dynastic legitimacy and national community. It did so by generalizing a principle of innate, inherited superiority on which its own domestic position was (however shakily) based to the vastness of the overseas possessions, covertly (or not so covertly) conveying the idea that if, say, English lords were naturally superior to other Englishmen, no matter: these other Englishmen were no less superior to the subjected natives. Indeed one is tempted to argue that the existence of late colonial empires even served to shore up domestic aristocratic bastions, since they appeared to confirm on a global, modern stage antique conceptions of power and privilege. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberalism is organically embedded in the racialized nature-value hierarchy; Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures; American hierarchy is a racial-religious system with religion as dispositive — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 127 (+2 more)

Related

• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule (similarity 0.83)
• Economic position has functioned as a proxy for racial and civilizational worth (similarity 0.79)
• American hierarchy is a racial-religious system with religion as dispositive (similarity 0.79)
• British political life conferred a leveling that America’s racial hierarchy denied. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule #corroborates (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571
• Liberalism is organically embedded in the racialized nature-value hierarchy #corroborates (0.78)
• Equal-lives rhetoric masks a new hierarchy between nationals and foreigners #expands (0.75)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures #complicates (0.72)
• American hierarchy is a racial-religious system with religion as dispositive #qualifies (0.71) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 127