White Creoles gained privilege under nationalism by claiming hybrid belonging

Evidence

Thus, whiteness, however tainted, retained its valorized position in Creole nationalist construction. The right of white Creoles to social and economic privilege and preference was retained, and even enhanced, with the departure of the colonial power. In many instances, white Creoles became international brokers in the new regime of sovereignty. At the same time, their representation as cultural and racial hybrids, and their organic claims to the territory protected their social and economic privilege in the crucible of anticolonial nationalism. Otherwise, nationalism’s challenge to white privilege might have become the basis for expulsion. Instead, their “whiteness” was rendered invisible in the face of a nationalist rejection of white supremacy. More importantly, white creolization became the mechanism for the nonproblematization of whiteness. It legitimized a postcolonial version of racial capitalism. This explains the continued domination of whites in the private sector of the postcolonial Caribbean despite nationalism’s racial challenge to white supremacy. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233 (#expands, via linked claim)

Thus, the nationalist movement was neither antiwhite nor anti-European. Rather, it was a contestation of the claims of whites and Europeans to supremacy and superiority. The various assertions of Africanity in national expression must be understood in these terms. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3234 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Purity claims exclude long-intermixed Carib descendants from Creole nationalism; White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233; Creole nationalism conceals racial capitalism beneath a discourse of cultural difference (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233
• Caribbean nationalism contested white supremacy rather than white presence itself #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3234