Parliamentary resistance to royal absolutism was also framed through racial dualism

Evidence

That is how the theme of race conflict functioned in the discourse of the king. And the same theme of the Norman Conquest articulates the answer the parliamentarians gave when they challenged the discourse of the king. The way in which the parliamentarians refuted the claims of royal absolutism was also articulated around this racial dualism and the fact of the Conquest. The analysis put forward by the parliamentarians and parliamentalists begins, paradoxically, by disavowing the Conquest, or rather by wrapping the Conquest up in a eulogy to William the Conqueror and his legitimacy. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 3134

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to how the Islamophobia field reads claims to legitimacy/mastery framed through race conflict — the same ‘racial dualism as political syntax’ recurs in colonial discourse.