Nile Valley racial language complicates Anderson’s race-patriotism theory

Evidence

The linguistic history of particularly sensitive words connoting race in the Nile Valley should therefore complicate our reading of Benedict Anderson’s account of the relationship between race, patriotism, and nationalism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 100

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages Imagined Communities - connects to the broader postcolonial critique tradition reading back against Anderson’s Eurocentrism.