Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks

Evidence

J. J. Thomas was one of those who expressed strong race pride. He was only too conscious of the extent of self-contempt and self-hatred among his fellow blacks in the West Indies. He saw how the values of white superiority had been internalised, with disastrous results. One factor in this process, in his view, was the education of young West Indians by white teachers. He thought their influence was ‘to a very great degree subversive of the national sentiment,’ by which he meant racial consciousness.” … “There were individually brilliant blacks. But there had to be ‘some potential agency to collect and adjust them into the vast engine essential for executing the true purposes of the civilised African Race.’” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial schooling creates the dependence complex it then blames on the Negro; For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling; Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (+20 more)

Related

• Colonial schooling creates the dependence complex it then blames on the Negro (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.90)
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.86)
• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned (similarity 0.86)
• White teachers’ education subverted West Indian racial consciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. (similarity 0.85)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.83)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.81)
• Crown colony rule proved more oppressive to Black West Indians than planter oligarchy (similarity 0.81)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.80)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.79)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336
• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned #expands (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. #expands (0.60)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Colonial education aimed to create a compliant middle class to support European colonization #expands (0.60)
• Colonial educators treated Africans as blank slates needing Western foundations. #expands (0.55)
• Colonial education aimed to limit subject aspirations by withholding surplus skills #expands (0.55)