Thousands of colonized bureaucrats made their way to the colonial metropole, in search of this fra- ternity, and found themselves excluded by the uglier, more racist fact that imperialism and its instruction in the language of the empire, did not guar- antee one the right to belong to the imperial nation—to what Anderson calls the “official nationalism.”

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 92