White colonials were themselves bound and trapped by empire

Evidence

Du Bois spells out the task mercilessly, urging “unusual points of vantage” to explore “souls undressed and from the back and side,” and the “working of [white] entrails”—“white folk” “hung, bound by their own binding.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1371

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how imperial/colonial subjects’ interiorities were conditioned by structures—echoes Thompson and Weber readings on ideology as lived experience. — connects to: White Zimbabwean memoirs contest land loss via colonial-era ideology. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 4; White Zimbabweans helped cause the post-2000 crisis by clinging to colonial identities — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 11
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Du Bois’s ‘unusual points of vantage’ phrase map onto any specific methodological essay? The ‘white entrails’ inversion of the usual ethnographic gaze is striking and could anchor a whole line of inquiry.