Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior

Evidence

As long as he remains among his own people, the little black follows very nearly the same course as the little white. But if he goes to Europe, he will have to reappraise his lot. For the Negro in France, which is his country, will feel different from other people. One can hear the glib remark: The Negro makes himself inferior. But the truth is that he is made inferior. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575

Categorization

• XREF: The central causal claim the reader needs: travel/education abroad produces the psychological reappraisal of colonial subjects. — connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness.; The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (+7 more)

Related

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.91)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.90)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.85)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.85)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.84)
• Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil (similarity 0.83)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes (similarity 0.83)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.82)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.82)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.81)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.81)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.81)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 135
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #expands (0.60)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87