The artisan-engineer knowledge split hardened racial exclusion in colonial labor policy

Evidence

However obliquely stated, that distinction between practical and conceptual knowledge— between “artisans” and “machinists” on the one side, “engineers” on the other—set out who could expect to be accorded the future privileges of colonial prosperity and to whom they would be categorically denied. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 739

Categorization

• XREF: The practical-vs-conceptual knowledge hierarchy as racial gatekeeping connects to the reader’s interest in colonial knowledge regimes and epistemic control. — connects to: The racialized other’s traits oppose an industrial capitalist work ethic — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 148