An educated Black professional seeks to reverse role hierarchy by commanding white subordinates.
Evidence
An increase in the power of the subordinates will spur them on to test out their power on one another. The superior gains a new function as a moderator in the power struggles of subordinates. He then not only finds himself confronted with differences of opinion and the sensitivities of his subordinates but also with power differentials between them, based on structure or cliques which he cannot get rid of as such and in which he is one factor among others. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 805 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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Broader Connections
- A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal.
#corroborates(0.80) - Rising subordinate power shifts superiors into moderating conflicts between subordinates.
#complicates(0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 805 - The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place
#expands(0.50) - Hurt by racial hatred, the Black man resolves to defeat white error through reason.
#expands(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 429 - Accepting European-imposed separation drives the black subject to seek elevation within a racial hierarchy
#qualifies(0.40) - Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color
#complicates(0.40) - When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly.
#exemplifies(0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 414 - The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.
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