Racial stereotypes repatriated through colonized authors sustain colonial hierarchy

Evidence

Characterizations of people and things not only lodge in the tenacious hold of words: they burrow into bodies and then re-emerge as resurrected knowledge, upholding oppositional positions as they take on new political forms. … Such was the tactic of the Indischen Bond in 1904 that took as its task representation of the Indo-European population with a platform based on acquiring land for them. The Bond prided itself on publishing a “meritorious study by a real Indo, by a real son of the Indies,” who used the pseudonym Sinjo Frans. It was an extraordinary piece of writing, if it did indeed come from “a son of the soil,” for it was more contemptuous of impoverished Indos than anything that the more tempered commissioners could express themselves. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the mechanism of ‘resurrected knowledge’ — stereotype internalization as political tactic.
• XREF: Connects to Gramscian hegemony and internalized racism literatures — colonized authors reproducing colonial contempt.