Achieving morality requires the Negro to erase his own image from consciousness

Evidence

Moral consciousness implies a kind of scission, a fracture of consciousness into a bright part and an opposing black part. In order to achieve morality, it is essential that the black, the dark, the Negro vanish from consciousness. Hence a Negro is forever in combat with his own image. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 674

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon defines the psychological scission that underwrites the Negro’s moral combat with his own image.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 674
• XREF: connects to: The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others; Moral transformation requires grinding away the old self first. — , A Year of World Stories, 11611; The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (+3 more)

Related

• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.87)
• The young Antillean Negro makes the nigger the scapegoat of his moral life (similarity 0.85)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.83)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.81)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.80)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.80)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.80)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.79)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.79)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.79)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.79)
• Rational argument cannot correct Negrophobia because it is prelogical (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Moral transformation requires grinding away the old self first. #expands (0.75) — , A Year of World Stories, 11611
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others #expands (0.70)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code #corroborates (0.60)
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #complicates (0.55)