Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects

Evidence

What are the terms of this problem? Jean Veneuse is a Negro. Born in the Antilles, he has lived in Bordeaux for years; so he is a European. But he is black; so he is a Negro. There is the conflict. He does not understand his own race, and the whites do not understand him. And, he observes, “The Europeans in general and the French in particular, not satisfied with simply ignoring the Negro of the colonies, repudiate the one whom they have shaped into their own image.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial ethnic categories broke down under acts both personal and political; Metropole-colony analytic unity was itself a dilemma of colonial rule; Colonial documentary practices failed to capture a racial underclass of mixed-race vagrants (+4 more)

Related

• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole (similarity 0.86)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.86)
• Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.85)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.85)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.83)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.83)
• The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.81)
• Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.80)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.80)
• Lumping all Negro peoples together erases their distinct national histories (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• Colonial ethnic categories broke down under acts both personal and political #complicates (0.60)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Metropole-colony analytic unity was itself a dilemma of colonial rule #expands (0.55)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347