The civilizing mission frames privileged imposition on the ruled as an honorable burden.

Evidence

At the same time, this arrogation that is also the arrogance underpinning the restriction of the civil to given and imposed modes of behavior and thought, morals and means, comes to think of itself as bearing a burden – the civilizing mission, white man’s burden. This is racial historicism’s ambivalent legacy under which we still labor. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 248

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines racial historicism’s legacy as the arrogation that reframes domination as a civilizational burden.
• XREF: connects to: The moral imperative to address Muslim injustice can slide into endorsing Western civilizing missions — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 26; Civility demands that the dominated feel grateful for their own subordination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 249; Colonial officials justified coercion as a legitimate corollary of the civilizing mission (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial officials justified coercion as a legitimate corollary of the civilizing mission #exemplifies (0.90)
• The moral imperative to address Muslim injustice can slide into endorsing Western civilizing missions #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 26
• Civility demands that the dominated feel grateful for their own subordination. #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 249
• Enlightenment ideals forced colonial powers to invent a civilizing mission as justification. #expands (0.80)