“SPANIARDS OF THE JEWISH TYPE”: PHILOSEPHARDISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH MOROCCO

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1. Marqués de Auñón's statement reflects the impact of “scientific” racism in Spain and the growing concern among Spanish intellectuals and policymakers about the racial make-up of the Spaniards. While some Spanish thinkers such as the anthropologist Federico Olóriz y Aguilera insisted on the “whiteness” of the Spanish race, others such as Costa contended that the Spaniards shared a “blood brotherhood” with the North Africans and argued that because of this consanguinity, the Spaniards were particularly well suited for the colonization of Morocco. Costa emphasized the existence of an “Ibero-Berber racial stock” that was found both in Morocco and in Spain (Martín-Márquez 39–60).