Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s question about the white gaze that colonial subjects internalize. — connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior; Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (+9 more)

Related

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.90)
• Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil (similarity 0.90)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.87)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.86)
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (similarity 0.86)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.85)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers (similarity 0.85)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.85)
• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. (similarity 0.85)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.84)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.84)
• Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.84)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.83)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• The Negro and whiteness were invented in Europe through scholarly effort #expands (0.60)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #expands (0.50)