Sanitary improvements are read by the colonized as colonial expansion.

Evidence

The statistics on sanitary improvements are not interpreted by the native as progress in the fight against illness, in general, but as fresh proof of the extension of the occupier’s hold on the country. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 397

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project on how colonial permeation resists separation of medicine from power. — connects to: Colonized peoples read colonial vaccination as a tool of subjugation; Colonial medicine enters colonized societies paired with racial humiliation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 395; Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (+1 more)

Broader Connections