Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into 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: Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past; Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past.; The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. (+1 more)
Related
- Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past. (similarity 0.96)
- The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. (similarity 0.94)
- Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.92)
- Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.88)
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.81)
- Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.80)
- Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity (similarity 0.80)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.79)
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.79)
- Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (similarity 0.79)
- Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.79)
- Reclaiming an ancient Negro civilization does not change present colonial suffering. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past
#corroborates(0.95) - Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past.
#corroborates(0.90) - Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization.
#corroborates(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869 - The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present.
#qualifies(0.65)