A colonial administrator’s home exposed his daughter to fear of Negroes via tom-tom music

Evidence

I had a great many talks with this patient. When she was ten or twelve years old, her father, “an old-timer in the Colonial Service,” liked to listen to programs of Negro music. The tom-tom echoed through their bouse every evening, long after she had gone to bed. Besides, as we have pointed out, it is at this age that the savage-cannibal-Negro makes his appearance. The connection was easily discernible. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 747 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I do not want to elaborate on the infrastructure of this psychoneurosis. The questions put by the chief psychiatrist had brought out a fear of imaginary Negroes–a fear first experienced at the age of twelve. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes; Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 747 (+2 more)

Related

• Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (similarity 0.96)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes (similarity 0.93)
• The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss (similarity 0.91)
• The hypnotic image of Negro drumming triggered the patient’s fear of losing her mother. (similarity 0.86)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 747
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746
• The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss #complicates (0.60)