Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

What? I have barely opened eyes that had been blindfolded, and someone already wants to drown me in the universal? What about the others? Those who “have no voice,” those who “have no spokesman.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661 (#expands, via linked claim)

I turn away from these inspectors of the Ark before the Flood and I attach myself to my brothers, Negroes like myself. To my horror, they too reject me. They are almost white. And besides they are about to marry white women. They will have children faintly tinged with brown. Who knows, perhaps little by little… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers; Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (+11 more)

Related

• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.89)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.88)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.87)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.87)
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.86)
• Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.86)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.86)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.84)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.83)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.83)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.82)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.82)
• Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 249
• Educated blacks who rush to the universal abandon voiceless masses. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 661
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #expands (0.50)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness #exemplifies (0.50)