Missionary conversion was a racial-regulatory technology cultivating obedient subjectivity

Evidence

The mission of missionaries was to convert the uninitiated not simply to belief in the Anglican God and the sorts of religious rituals associated with such belief. It was to instill also the godly virtues of self-discipline, hard work, cleanliness, and service, thus cultivating in the name of civility and civilization a new subjectivity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1416 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Northern white missionaries founded Spelman with Rockefeller money as black women’s higher education — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 177; Missionary magazines systematically socialized white children into racial uplift work. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 552; Antebellum American slavery used forced Christian conversion to define civilization and belonging (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Missionary conversion aimed to manufacture a new colonial subjectivity, not just religious belief #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1416