Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society

Evidence

What is true is that under normal conditions, an interaction must exist between the family and society at large. The home is the basis of the truth of society, but society authenticates and legitimizes the family. The colonial structure is the very negation of this reciprocal justification. The Algerian woman, in imposing such a restriction on herself, in choosing a form of existence limited in scope, was deepening her consciousness of struggle and preparing for combat. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how colonial structure negates the mutual justification between family and society, grounding Fanon’s concept of colonial penetration.
• XREF: connects to: The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society; Age-set cohorts, not biological parents, performed routine discipline in pre-colonial Bantu societies — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4256; French colonial peace eroded village cohesion and elder authority (+15 more)

Related

• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.86)
• French colonial peace eroded village cohesion and elder authority (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa (similarity 0.85)
• Utopian agrarian models were inverted in the colonies to enforce property and marriage. (similarity 0.85)
• European colonial careers routinely displaced families across vast distances (similarity 0.83)
• The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.80)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.78)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial rule caused the Malagasy dependency complex rather than pre-existing it. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.55)
• Empire subtly permeated every family relation in colonial correspondence #exemplifies (0.50)
• Family letters reveal colonial dispositions without clarifying inner feeling #qualifies (0.40)