External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white

Evidence

In fact you are like us–you are “us.” Your thoughts are ours. You behave as we behave, as we would behave. You think of yourself–others think of you–as a Negro? Utterly mistaken! You merely look like one. As for everything else, you think as a European. And so it is natural that you love as a European. Since European men love only European women, you can hardly marry anyone but a woman of the country where you have always lived, a woman of our good old France, your real and only country. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 249

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how the white world distinguishes the ‘looks black but thinks white’ subject from the genuine Negro.
• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s distinction between locally and externally educated subjects — this defines the assimilated, externally raised type. — connects to: White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black; The white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (+10 more)

Related

• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.89)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.87)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.86)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.83)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.83)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.83)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.83)
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.83)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.83)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.82)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.82)
• Mastering French makes the Antilles Negro whiter, earning honorary white status (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. #corroborates (0.90)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized #corroborates (0.55)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 75