Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves

Evidence

The soil, which only a moment ago was still a tamed steed, begins to revel. Are these virgins, these nymphomaniacs? Black Magic, primitive mentality, animism, animal eroticism, it all floods over me. All of it is typical of peoples that have not kept pace with the evolution of the human race. Or, if one prefers, this is humanity at its lowest. Having reached this point, I was long reluctant to commit myself. Aggression was in the stars. I had to choose. What do I mean? I had no choice… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Parisian institutions expelled Black students for intellectual independence.; The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474; Universalizing black intellectuals abandon the masses who lack voice. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661 (+5 more)

Related

• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.85)
• Educated blacks who rush to the universal abandon voiceless masses. (similarity 0.84)
• Parisian institutions expelled Black students for intellectual independence. (similarity 0.84)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.82)
• Universalizing black intellectuals abandon the masses who lack voice. (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.82)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.81)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.80)
• Black writers must reconstruct a whole culture torn from them in Africa. (similarity 0.80)
• Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (similarity 0.80)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.79)
• Genuine black culture cannot emerge under present colonial conditions. (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon’s analytic aim is freeing blacks from colonial-produced complexes (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (similarity 0.79)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity #expands (0.65)
• Universalizing black intellectuals abandon the masses who lack voice. #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661
• Educated blacks who rush to the universal abandon voiceless masses. #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race #expands (0.60)