A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world.

Evidence

But–and this is a most important point–we observe the opposite in the man of color. A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 563

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s question about how external education psychologically affects colonial subjects: contact itself is the traumatic trigger, not any family pathology. — connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; The white gaze returns the black body to its owner distorted and demonized; Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites (similarity 0.86)
• Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. (similarity 0.84)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.83)
• The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.’ (similarity 0.83)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.81)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness (similarity 0.81)
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.81)
• Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This… (similarity 0.80)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.80)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.79)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.79)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.79)
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.78)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ (similarity 0.78)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior #expands (0.75)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments #corroborates (0.70)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness #expands (0.65)