Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites

Evidence

How is the persistence of this reaction in the twentieth century to be explained when in other ways there is complete identification with the white man? Very often the Negro who becomes abnormal has never had any relations with whites. Has some remote experience been repressed in his unconscious? Did the little black child see his father beaten or lynched by a white man? Has there been a real traumatism? To all of this we have to answer no. Well, then? — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 569 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Colonial neurosis does not stem from a repressed personal trauma; Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 569 (+1 more)

Related

• Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. (similarity 0.93)
• A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority (similarity 0.82)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.79)
• The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.’ (similarity 0.79)
• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes (similarity 0.78)
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.78)
• Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This… (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 569