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“Colonial Psychology” and Race

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

H Hoetink
H Hoetink
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Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico
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If “colonial politics” denotes the objectives of a metropolitan power vis-à-vis its colony, then, for purposes of this paper, we may define “colonial psychology” as the frame of reference that determines the attitudes of “metropolitans” vis-à-vis the “colonial problem.” By “metropolitans” we mean the inhabitants of those Western societies that are linked to part of the non-West by the historical, political, economic and psychological ties that have always accentuated the dominance of the West. By “colony” we shall here mean only the areas with a multiracial population of which a white element considers itself so integrally a part that it feels itself more strongly associated with its own “colonial” society than with the metropolitan country of its origins.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 629 - 640
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1961

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