Racial pride can convert labor aversion into a claim to charity

Evidence

“Their race was their title of superiority over the natives, and to do manual labour conflicted with the dignity conferred upon them by their race… Such an aversion degenerated, in those who were most demoralized, into a claim to charity as a right” (Kiewiet, op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2322

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism of racialized selfhood — how race-thinking inflects labor value and entitlement — connects to the reader’s Foundations module on colonial psychology and racialized selfhood.