French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly
Evidence
Since discord unfolds its negative, destructive character between particular individuals, we naively conclude that it must have the same effect on the total group. In reality, however, something which is negative and damaging between individuals if it is considered in isolation and as aiming in a particular direction, does not necessarily have the same effect within the total relationship of these individuals. For a very different picture emerges when we view the conflict in conjunction with other interactions not affected by it. The negative and dualistic elements play an entirely positive role in this more comprehensive picture, despite the destruction they may work on particular relations. All this is very obvious in the competition of individuals within an economic unit. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 280 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype.; Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87; Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism (+9 more)
Related
- Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.79)
- Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype.
#exemplifies(0.85) - Antilleans internalize European archetypes so fully that they become anti-Negro
#exemplifies(0.80) - Conflict destructive at one level can integrate the larger group
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 280 - The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code
#complicates(0.70) - Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes
#qualifies(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87 - The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior
#qualifies(0.60) - The laboring Negro fights from lived need, not ideology
#exemplifies(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 819 - Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior
#qualifies(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575 - Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system
#complicates(0.60) - Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism
#contradicts(0.55) - For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity.
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