Britain’s imperial legacy turned black migration into phobic post-colonial melancholia

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1970s UK crisis fused economic, cultural and ethnic traumas into one ruptural conjuncture; Postwar Caribbean migration exposed Britain’s latent imperial racial stereotypes; Post-imperial Britain grieves its lost power into racial phobia (+8 more)

Related

• Postwar Caribbean migration exposed Britain’s latent imperial racial stereotypes (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.84)
• Post-imperial Britain grieves its lost power into racial phobia (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.80)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.80)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.79)
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial subjects’ migration to Britain answered prior imperial presence #corroborates (0.70)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346