The creole nationalism that opposed Spain nonetheless embraced racism toward non-whites

Evidence

I have emphasized here the racialist distinctions drawn between peninsulares and creoles because the main topic under review is the rise of creole nationalism. This should not be understood as minimizing the parallel growth of creole racism towards mestizos, Negroes, and Indians; nor the willingness of an unthreatened metropole to protect (up to a certain point) these unfortunates. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to how nationalist movements can simultaneously resist empire and reproduce its hierarchies — a mechanism the Islamophobia readings will echo. — connects to: Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 347; Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 216; Madrid’s tightened control and immigration fueled creole resentment — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 219 (+4 more)

Related

• Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence (similarity 0.84)
• Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World (similarity 0.82)
• Creole culture masks racial hierarchies by re-framing difference as creole versus non-creole (similarity 0.82)
• Creolite movements rejected African roots while embracing European cultural identity (similarity 0.81)
• Madrid’s tightened control and immigration fueled creole resentment (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism was invented in colonial Creole societies, not Europe. (similarity 0.81)
• Creolization means opposite things for Europeans and Africans — taint versus civilization (similarity 0.80)
• Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other. (similarity 0.80)
• Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.79)
• White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism (similarity 0.79)
• Creole discourse normalized racial hierarchy while hiding its exploitative basis. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonized nationalists engaged with, rather than ignored, imposed imperial racial categories #expands (0.85)
• Racism is distinct from and destructive of nationalism #contradicts (0.82)
• Popular nationalism reproduced exclusion by demanding linguistic uniformity #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 386
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #complicates (0.72)