Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes

Evidence

I had a great many talks with this patient. When she was ten or twelve years old, her father, “an old-timer in the Colonial Service,” liked to listen to programs of Negro music. The tom-tom echoed through their bouse every evening, long after she had gone to bed. Besides, as we have pointed out, it is at this age that the savage-cannibal-Negro makes his appearance. The connection was easily discernible. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 747

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro; Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes; A colonial administrator’s home exposed his daughter to fear of Negroes via tom-tom music (+5 more)

Related

• Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (similarity 0.96)
• A colonial administrator’s home exposed his daughter to fear of Negroes via tom-tom music (similarity 0.93)
• The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss (similarity 0.90)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.87)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance (similarity 0.85)
• The hypnotic image of Negro drumming triggered the patient’s fear of losing her mother. (similarity 0.84)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.81)
• The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 750
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger #corroborates (0.55)