Utopian agrarian models were inverted in the colonies to enforce property and marriage.

Evidence

What is true is that under normal conditions, an interaction must exist between the family and society at large. The home is the basis of the truth of society, but society authenticates and legitimizes the family. The colonial structure is the very negation of this reciprocal justification. The Algerian woman, in imposing such a restriction on herself, in choosing a form of existence limited in scope, was deepening her consciousness of struggle and preparing for combat. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230; Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives; English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn (+1 more)

Related

• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society (similarity 0.85)
• European colonial careers routinely displaced families across vast distances (similarity 0.81)
• Revolution reconstituted the conjugal couple as the cell of the nation (similarity 0.80)
• French colonial peace eroded village cohesion and elder authority (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.79)
• The revolution transforms the family’s apparent weakness into strategic advantage (similarity 0.78)
• Agrarian production roles determine gender hierarchy within Algerian families (similarity 0.78)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society #complicates (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230
• Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives #expands (0.50)
• English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn #complicates (0.40)
• Historic marriages can reshape national power structures. #expands (0.35) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 313