Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization.

Evidence

To many colored intellectuals European culture has a quality of exteriority. What is more, in human relationships, the Negro may feel himself a stranger to the Western world. Not wanting to live the part of a poor relative, of an adopted son, of a bastard child, shall he feverishly seek to discover a Negro civilization? — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869

Categorization

• XREF: Centrally relevant to the reader’s purpose: this is precisely the psychological portrait of the white-skin-black intellectual who, educated outside, feels exterior to European culture and compensates by seeking a Negro civilization. — connects to: Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers; Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity; Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (+9 more)
• QUESTION: Fanon implies the search for Negro civilization is a symptom rather than a cure — worth tracing how this claim develops in the two-education contrast.

Related

• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.92)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.91)
• Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past. (similarity 0.91)
• The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. (similarity 0.90)
• Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past. (similarity 0.88)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.87)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.86)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.84)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.83)
• Reclaiming an ancient Negro civilization does not change present colonial suffering. (similarity 0.83)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.83)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (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)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation #expands (0.75)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #qualifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 818
• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned #expands (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181