Mutual staring marked both Africans and Europeans as spectacle to the other.

Evidence

James’s experience with the Africans echoes what Burhan al-Dïn endured during his harrowing evening at the theater in Marseilles, when he was better entertainment for the spectators than the stage itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the theme of reverse-gaze / the colonized observing the colonizer back, relevant to the reader’s Egypt-Sudan colonial comparison. — connects to: Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe; Colonial domination operated by casting Europeans as normative and Africans as other. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 35; Nineteenth-century Egyptian visitors experienced Europe as a place of being stared at — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 58 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mubärak paralleled African experiences of being stared at with Egyptians in Europe; Colonial domination operated by casting Europeans as normative and Africans as other. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 35; Nineteenth-century Egyptian visitors experienced Europe as a place of being stared at — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 58 (+3 more)