Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil

Evidence

What I am asserting is that the European has a fixed concept of the Negro, and there is nothing more exasperating than to be asked: “How long have you been in France? You speak French so well.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 135 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 135; Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other; The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (+16 more)

Related

• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.90)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.89)
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (similarity 0.89)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.86)
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought (similarity 0.84)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.83)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.83)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.82)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.82)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.82)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.82)
• The ‘Negro’ category erased Africa’s contributions to Western civilization (similarity 0.81)
• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #corroborates (0.85)
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought #corroborates (0.75)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 135
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #expands (0.70)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes so fully that they become anti-Negro #expands (0.65)
• Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery #exemplifies (0.65) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior #expands (0.60)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. #expands (0.60)
• The Negro and whiteness were invented in Europe through scholarly effort #corroborates (0.60)
• Anti-Blackness forms a single connected global phenomenon #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1117
• The Negro construct reversed 3,000 years of African-European relations #expands (0.60)
• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts #expands (0.60)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked #exemplifies (0.60)