Anti-Negro prejudice functions as a defense against incestuous feelings.
Evidence
An argument widely used by racialists against those who do not share their convictions is worthy of mention for its revealing character. “What,” they say, “if you had a daughter, do you mean to say that you would marry her to a negro?” I have seen people who appeared to have no racialist bias lose all critical sense when confronted with this kind of question. The reason is that such an argument disturbs certain uneasy feelings in them (more exactly, incestuous feelings) and they turn to racialism as a defence reaction. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 603
Categorization
- QUESTION: The mechanism Fanon borrows from Mannoni is asserted rather than demonstrated; worth probing whether the incest reading holds or is itself projection.
- XREF: connects to: The racialist daughter-marriage argument exposes incestuous rather than racial feelings; Prejudice is an attitude in search of an object, not the reverse; Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601 (+4 more)
Related
- The racialist daughter-marriage argument exposes incestuous rather than racial feelings (similarity 0.87)
- Rational argument cannot correct Negrophobia because it is prelogical (similarity 0.83)
- Prejudice is an attitude in search of an object, not the reverse (similarity 0.82)
- Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.82)
- Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.81)
- White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.79)
- Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level.
#expands(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601 - The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code
#contradicts(0.50) - Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’
#contradicts(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 - White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks
#expands(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632 - Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications
#expands(0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209