Blacks are confined to a sterile zone of nonbeing without access to genuine upheaval.
Evidence
There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born. In most cases, the black man lacks the advantage of being able to accomplish this descent into a real hell. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 17 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
One can already imagine Alioune Diop wondering what place the black genius will have in the universal chorus. It is my belief that a true culture cannot come to life under present conditions. It will be time enough to talk of the black genius when the man has regained his rightful place. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 662 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 17; Genuine black culture cannot emerge under present colonial conditions. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 662; Liberation announced from without produced psychoses in black slaves rather than transformation.
Related
- Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born (similarity 0.89)
- Genuine black culture cannot emerge under present colonial conditions. (similarity 0.85)
- Black writers must reconstruct a whole culture torn from them in Africa. (similarity 0.84)
- Liberation announced from without produced psychoses in black slaves rather than transformation. (similarity 0.81)
- Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.79)
- The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.78)
- Neither Negro nor white exists apart from inherited contingency; freedom demands disalienation. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born
#corroborates(0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 17 - Genuine black culture cannot emerge under present colonial conditions.
#expands(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 662 - Liberation announced from without produced psychoses in black slaves rather than transformation.
#corroborates(0.55)