Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past.

Evidence

To many colored intellectuals European culture has a quality of exteriority. What is more, in human relationships, the Negro may feel himself a stranger to the Western world. Not wanting to live the part of a poor relative, of an adopted son, of a bastard child, shall he feverishly seek to discover a Negro civilization? — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past.; Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence.; Working-class Blacks think in the present and reject Negro-past discovery. (+4 more)

Related

• Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past. (similarity 0.96)
• The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. (similarity 0.96)
• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.94)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.91)
• Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (similarity 0.84)
• Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity (similarity 0.83)
• Reclaiming an ancient Negro civilization does not change present colonial suffering. (similarity 0.83)
• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present (similarity 0.82)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.82)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.81)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.81)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.81)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.81)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. #corroborates (0.90)
• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past #corroborates (0.85)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. #expands (0.60)