Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries.

Evidence

The little French learning was also dangerous, in that it aroused a powerful appetite for more; and it threatened (because of economic problems) to create a class of “literate unemployed”. In words that could have applied to more than just education, an old Kabyle complained sadly to Germaine Tillion: “You’ve led us to the middle of the ford, and there you’ve left us.…” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence.; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness; Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks (+16 more)

Related

• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial education made deracination the price of Black middle-class status (similarity 0.84)
• The 1883 colonial authorities abandoned manual training for a managerial caste system (similarity 0.81)
• Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt (similarity 0.81)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial education defined Black middle class status by cultural deracination and European fluency (similarity 0.81)
• Pathare Prabhus leveraged scribal literacy to enter colonial employment in western India (similarity 0.80)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial curricula taught the effects of French power rather than French history proper (similarity 0.79)
• Imperial administration channeled metropolitan middle classes into colonial careers (similarity 0.78)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned #complicates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race #qualifies (0.70)
• Colonial educators treated Africans as blank slates needing Western foundations. #expands (0.60)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336
• American racism fused Black people into one mass preventing internal class divisions #contradicts (0.60)
• Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #exemplifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• Colonial education sought to dominate chiefs morally through elite schooling #qualifies (0.50)
• Colonial administrators deliberately shifted mission education away from producing black Englishmen. #qualifies (0.50)