Radical white ideology offers colonized elites equality with their oppressors
Evidence
[O]ne minority section of the white society in or under which he lives will offer the educated elite of Asia and Africa or black America an interpretation of the world which impels to action, thereby assuaging his feelings of inferiority. Nine times out of ten it can be easily pointed out that the ideology offered has no relation to the plight of the educated black, brown, or yellow elite But that ideology does solve something… . [I]t enabled the Negro or Asian or African to meet revolutionary fragments of the hostile race on a plane of equality. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1411
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the psychology of postcolonial elites encountering Western ideologies.
Related
- Radical Western ideologies recruited educated non-white elites by assuaging inferiority (similarity 0.92)
- Colonial control of elite formation failed because elite nationalism fed the Black radical tradition (similarity 0.82)
- Colonized African elites, culturally remade as European, initiated elite nationalism (similarity 0.80)
- Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.80)
- Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it (similarity 0.80)
- Black radical ideologues emerged as internal aliens from the colonial middle class (similarity 0.80)
- The new republic faced colonial dualism, illiteracy, and an unprepared elite (similarity 0.80)
- Marxism’s explanatory power made it irresistible to Black radical intellectuals (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial powers confronted nationalism built around westernized elite African figures. (similarity 0.79)
- The Black radical tradition offers one part of the solution to Western civilization’s crisis. (similarity 0.79)
- Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals (similarity 0.79)
- European racial ideology predated and justified the African slave trade, not vice versa (similarity 0.78)
- The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.78)
- ‘Solidarity among whites’ in colonies mirrored trans-state aristocratic class solidarity (similarity 0.78)
- Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.78)