Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This statement may not be readily accepted.‘
Evidence
Black Skin, White Masks (English translation, The Showroom PDF) (The Showroom)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.’ — Black Skin, White Masks - Wikipedia; A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 563
Related
- The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.’ (similarity 0.92)
- Fanon reads Freud as holding that a normal child in a normal family becomes a normal adult, then argues this developmental model does not apply in the colonial context. (similarity 0.85)
- Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. (similarity 0.82)
- A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. (similarity 0.80)
- A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world (similarity 0.80)
- Fanon’s observations apply only to Antillean Blacks, not African Blacks. (similarity 0.78)
- Fanon’s claims are scoped to Antillean blacks, not Africans (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world.
#corroborates(0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 563