Inspired by Bourdieu's work, this study draws on multidisciplinary datasets to unravel the role of language and symbolic power for retaining social hierarchies and crafting ‘distinctive’ selves in postcolonial times. Showcasing Mozambique's capital city of Maputo, the study relies on censuses from the period 1980 to 2017, historical data, interviews and metadiscursive reflection to problematize how education can serve as an instrument to effectively inscribe a certain social order in people's minds and bodies that can lead to an unconscious acceptance of social differences and hierarchies, to ‘a sense of one's place’. Probing into complex temporal and spatial co‐presences, the paper highlights the role that education has played in promoting ideas central to the divisive dynamics of Portuguese and how social distinctions that were obviously more overtly racial in colonial times have become more covert and have found more fine‐grained linguistic expression and perpetuate conditions of coloniality in contemporaneity.

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从种族到语言的社会划分：当代马普托的殖民地

受布迪厄（Bourdieu）工作的启发，本研究利用多学科数据集来揭示语言和象征权力在后殖民时代保留社会等级制度和塑造“独特”自我的作用。该研究展示了莫桑比克的首都马普托，该研究依赖于1980年至2017年期间的人口普查，历史数据，访谈和元递归性反思，使教育如何有效地将某种社会秩序铭刻在人们的思想和身体中，从而引发了人们的质疑。潜意识地接受社会差异和等级制度，到“一个人的位置感”。探索复杂的时空共存，