Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary

Evidence

Since the Oriental was a member of a subject race, he had to be subjected: it was that simple. The locus classicus for such judgment and action is to be found in Gustave Le Bon’s Les Lois psychologiques de l’évolution des peuples (1894). — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516

Categorization

• XREF: Anticipates necropolitics — the logic by which a whole population is marked as subjugatable — and connects to later readings on racialized statelessness. — connects to: Settler and imperial justifications rest on denied racialized us-versus-they splits — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1851; Race-thinkers needed anthropology to classify Europeans into distinct hereditary types — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 914; Denying colonial subjects the rights Europeans fought for required racializing them as essentially fixed (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516