Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures

Evidence

Black magic! Orgies, witches’ sabbaths, heathen ceremonies, amulets. Coitus is an occasion to call on the gods of the clan. It is a sacred act, pure, absolute, bringing invisible forces into action. What is one to think of all these manifestations, all these initiations, all these acts? From very direction I am assaulted by the obscenity of dances and of words. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 473 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity.; The white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (+16 more)

Related

• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial anthropology reduced African rites to obscene black magic (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (similarity 0.84)
• Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (similarity 0.82)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.80)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.80)
• The ‘Negro’ category erased Africa’s contributions to Western civilization (similarity 0.80)
• The Negro is forced to wear the stereotype livery the white man has sewed. (similarity 0.80)
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon’s analytic aim is freeing blacks from colonial-produced complexes (similarity 0.79)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.79)
• White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race. (similarity 0.79)
• Negritude was born as a rejection of colonial self-alienation among Antilleans (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle #exemplifies (0.80)
• Colonial anthropology reduced African rites to obscene black magic #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 473
• Colonial commissions treated everyday sensory details as proof of racial character #corroborates (0.70)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.70)
• White artists routinely distorted Black features in pre-photographic portraits #exemplifies (0.70)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa #corroborates (0.60)
• Cataloguing Negro reality always feels incomplete #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 619
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization #expands (0.55)
• Colonial ethnic labels measured threat level rather than actual ethnicity #corroborates (0.55) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1100