Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins
Evidence
What are the terms of this problem? Jean Veneuse is a Negro. Born in the Antilles, he has lived in Bordeaux for years; so he is a European. But he is black; so he is a Negro. There is the conflict. He does not understand his own race, and the whites do not understand him. And, he observes, “The Europeans in general and the French in particular, not satisfied with simply ignoring the Negro of the colonies, repudiate the one whom they have shaped into their own image.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race; Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them.; Colonial reformers openly rejected making imitation Europeans, seeking perfected natives instead (+7 more)
Related
- Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.96)
- External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.92)
- Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.91)
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.89)
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.88)
- The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.88)
- Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.85)
- Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.85)
- Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.84)
- The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.84)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.83)
- French society grants educated colonial subjects status only by denying their Negro identity (similarity 0.83)
- Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole (similarity 0.83)
- The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them.
#corroborates(0.90) - Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race
#corroborates(0.85) - External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races
#expands(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 - Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity
#expands(0.65) - Colonial reformers openly rejected making imitation Europeans, seeking perfected natives instead
#complicates(0.50)