Moroccan women adopted black veils as a combat symbol of mourning, not tradition

Evidence

It is worth noting that black, in Moroccan or Arab society, has never expressed mourning or affliction. As a combat measure, the adoption of black is a response to the desire to exert a symbolic pressure on the occupier, and hence to make a logical choice of one’s own symbols. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Algerian veil’s transformation discussed elsewhere in this chapter — a cross-Maghreb pattern of symbolic resistance. — connects to: Moroccan women adopted black veils as a deliberate symbolic combat measure; Algerian women’s veiling practices changed without being part of the revolution’s program; Algerian women who had abandoned the veil re-donned it in response to forced unveiling (+2 more)

Related

• Moroccan women adopted black veils as a deliberate symbolic combat measure (similarity 0.96)
• Forced unveiling campaigns backfire by driving women to adopt the veil (similarity 0.84)
• France’s 1958 forced unveiling drove Algerian women to adopt the veil as protest (similarity 0.84)
• The veil’s meaning reversed from resistance symbol to revolutionary instrument (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian women who had abandoned the veil re-donned it in response to forced unveiling (similarity 0.84)
• Forced unveiling in colonial Algeria backfired by politicizing the veil (similarity 0.84)
• Islamists exploited a transport problem to coerce women into wearing the veil (similarity 0.83)
• Rising Islamophobia causes some Muslim women to adopt the veil as political resistance (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian women’s veiling practices changed without being part of the revolution’s program (similarity 0.83)
• Enforced unveiling converts the veil into a symbol of anticolonial resistance (similarity 0.82)
• The veil shifted from passive tradition into an active revolutionary instrument (similarity 0.82)
• European observers read the veil as concealing beauty that should be forcibly exhibited (similarity 0.82)
• French unveiling campaigns aimed to demoralize Algerian men, not liberate women (similarity 0.82)
• The veil functions as feminist resistance and liberation, not only oppression (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim women adopt the hijab as political resistance against Islamophobia (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Algerian women’s veiling practices changed without being part of the revolution’s program #expands (0.50)
• Algerian women who had abandoned the veil re-donned it in response to forced unveiling #expands (0.45)
• Islamists exploited a transport problem to coerce women into wearing the veil #expands (0.40) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 332
• Circulating veiled-woman imagery deadens Westerners’ sense of Muslim women’s diversity #contradicts (0.35) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 394