Fanon derived the black desire for whiteness from economic and social structure

Evidence

Fanon, in fact, adopts a more properly Adlerian perspective when he writes “if there is an inferiority complex it is the outcome of a double process: primarily economic and subsequently the internalisation - or better the epidermalisation - of this inferiority” (Fanon, 1986). … If the black African patient is suffering from an inferiority complex, and desires to be white, this desire has to be derived from the social structure and the fact that he (sic) lives in a society which makes his inferiority complex possible by proclaiming the superiority of one race over another. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon’s key correction: inferiority complex is socially produced (economics plus ‘epidermalisation’), not innate as Mannoni claimed.
• XREF: Directly qualifies vault claims about racial formation being socially constructed rather than biologically given; runs parallel to Black Marxism notes on slavery’s psychological subjugation. — connects to: Fanon derived the black inferiority complex from economic subordination and racial hierarchy — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338; White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness; The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Supports the sacrifice article’s framing of ideology masking material hierarchy in a colonial-psychiatric register.

Broader Connections

• Fanon derived the black inferiority complex from economic subordination and racial hierarchy #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #exemplifies (0.85)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.80)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures #corroborates (0.70)