Fanon distrusted the Negro mysticism he himself had felt

Evidence

Sacrifice was a middle point between the creation and myself–now I went back no longer to sources but to The Source. Nevertheless, one had to distrust rhythm, earthmother love, this mystic, carnal marriage of the group and the cosmos. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 470

Categorization

• QUESTION: This self-doubt about racial mysticism foreshadows where Fanon lands on négritude as reaction rather than liberation.
• XREF: connects to: Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity

Related

• Fanon’s closeness to the alienated barred him from scientific objectivity (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity (similarity 0.78)
• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present (similarity 0.78)