Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race
Evidence
What are the terms of this problem? Jean Veneuse is a Negro. Born in the Antilles, he has lived in Bordeaux for years; so he is a European. But he is black; so he is a Negro. There is the conflict. He does not understand his own race, and the whites do not understand him. And, he observes, “The Europeans in general and the French in particular, not satisfied with simply ignoring the Negro of the colonies, repudiate the one whom they have shaped into their own image.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black; Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins; Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (+20 more)
Related
- Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.96)
- Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.92)
- External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.89)
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.88)
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.86)
- The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.86)
- Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.85)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.83)
- Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.83)
- White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.82)
- The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society (similarity 0.82)
- Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.82)
- Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.82)
- French society grants educated colonial subjects status only by denying their Negro identity (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him.
#corroborates(0.95) - Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them.
#corroborates(0.90) - External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races
#expands(0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 - Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors
#expands(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134 - White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks.
#expands(0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336 - Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity
#expands(0.60) - Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry
#expands(0.60) - Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness
#expands(0.55)