Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized

Evidence

If the “peculiar sensation” of an imposed “double-consciousness” is, as Du Bois held, the fate of those subject to a racialized identity, and is what Eduardo Glissant described the lot of those who endure a “schizoid self,” it was also something that middling colonizers like Valck shared, as well. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467

Relations of power insure that this “double-consciousness” of ruler and ruled are not commensurate. But some features of doubling and dependence—as Hegel, Orwell, and Nadine Gordimer in her trenchant parody of “something out there” note—are resonant. Franz Carl’s letters were self-conscious exercises that sometimes collapsed his bracketed worlds. In them he fashioned a “plausible” self: a promising and honorable civil servant; a cultivated man of knowledge; a dedicated, protective, and disciplining father. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends Du Bois’s racial double-consciousness and Glissant’s schizoid self to the colonizer’s position — a redefinition worth tracking.
• XREF: Resonates with discussions in my colonial-studies reading on the colonizer’s own fractured subjectivity. — connects to: Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #expands (0.75)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #complicates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #complicates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346
• The colonized colonizer duality gave Egyptian nationalists a Janus-like worldview #expands (0.65)