Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness.; Colonial credibility drew on Lamarckian acquired character rather than biological race — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1043; Racial dehumanization intensified precisely as enslaved Africans assimilated colonial culture (+31 more)

Related

• Racial dehumanization intensified precisely as enslaved Africans assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.92)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (similarity 0.86)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial schooling creates the dependence complex it then blames on the Negro (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.84)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.83)
• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.82)
• White teachers’ education subverted West Indian racial consciousness. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial race epistemology merged physical traits with moral character assessments (similarity 0.81)
• African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.81)
• Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Racial dehumanization intensified precisely as enslaved Africans assimilated colonial culture #corroborates (0.90)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #qualifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #complicates (0.60)