Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought

Evidence

Dark-skinned Muslims found in medieval psalters, paintings, poetry, and romances are not always monstrous, but their blackness indicates that they are evil. In an image from fourteenth-century France depicting a battle, the Muslim soldiers wear turbans and have dark eyes, but perhaps what is most interesting is the face on their shields—an African man. This is but one indication of how Muslims were related not just to Jews, but also to Africans. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

At the age of twenty–at the time, that is, when the collective unconscious has been more or less lost, or is resistant at least to being raised to the conscious level–the Antillean recognizes that he is living an error. Why is that? Quite simply because–and this is very important–the Antillean has recognized himself as a Negro, but, by virtue of an ethical transit, he also feels (collective unconscious) that one is a Negro to the degree to which one is wicked, sloppy, malicious, instinctual. Everything that is the opposite of these Negro modes of behavior is white. This must be recognized as the source of Negrophobia in the Antillean. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; Projection makes the Negro the fixed symbol of base emotions in European therapy; The white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity (+31 more)

Related

• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts (similarity 0.92)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ (similarity 0.87)
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery (similarity 0.85)
• Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil (similarity 0.84)
• Blackness coded Muslim evil in medieval art, linking Muslims to Africans. (similarity 0.84)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.82)
• Dark skin signified sin and the devil in Christian theology from the fifth century. (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.81)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.81)
• The young Antillean Negro makes the nigger the scapegoat of his moral life (similarity 0.80)
• A medieval haircut could mark a man as betraying his ethnic community (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans perceive their fellows through a white frame of reference (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery #exemplifies (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.60)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess #expands (0.55)
• The racial epidermal schema replaces the corporeal schema under white regard #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 395