Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity.

Evidence

In every society, in every collectivity, exists–must exist–a channel, an outlet through which the forces accumulated in the form of aggression can be released. This is the purpose of games in children’s institutions, of psychodramas in group therapy, and, in a more general way, of illustrated magazines for children –each type of society, of course, requiring its own specific kind of catharsis. The Tarzan stories, the sagas of twelveyear-old explorers, the adventures of Mickey Mouse, and all those “comic books” serve actually as a release for collective aggression. The magazines are put together by white men for little white men. This is the heart of the problem. In the Antilles–and there is every reason to think that the situation is the same in the other colonies –these same magazines are devoured by the local children. In the magazines the Wolf, the Devil, the Evil Spirit, the Bad Man, the Savage are always symbolized by Negroes or Indians; since there is always identification with the victor, the little Negro, quite as easily as the little white boy, becomes an explorer, an adventurer, a missionary “who faces the danger of being eaten by the wicked Negroes.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 570 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness; White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 570; Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures

Related

• White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race. (similarity 0.94)
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures (similarity 0.85)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.84)
• Fanon’s claims are scoped to Antillean blacks, not Africans (similarity 0.81)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.80)
• No Antillean could think of himself as a Negro until Aimé Césaire appeared (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.79)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.79)
• A few classroom phrases form the young Antillean’s entire worldview. (similarity 0.78)
• In the Antilles, perception of people always occurs in white terms (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness #corroborates (0.80)
• White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 570
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures #complicates (0.40)