Sentence:  <WSD>Coolie</WSD>-identity is as much the product of self-perception as it is the construction of a category by those who did not belong to it. It is these constructions that historically constituted a <WSD>coolie</WSD> in the matrix of power relations which this essay seeks to partially comprehend. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.