High culture is depicted as disarming the disenfranchised outsider.

Evidence

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates negritude. To the colonialist offensive against the veil, the colonized opposes the cult of the veil. What was an undifferentiated element in a homogeneous whole acquires a taboo character, and the attitude of a given Algerian woman with respect to the veil will be constantly related to her overall attitude with respect to the foreign occupation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The liminal observer sees a culture more clearly than insiders do; The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165; The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (+3 more)

Related

• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.86)
• Minority cultural works are pressured to speak for their entire community (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.81)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.79)
• Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.78)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him #expands (0.55)
• The bourgeoisie expropriated popular culture to legitimize its rule #corroborates (0.50)
• Cultural value is historically mobile as forms move between elite and popular #expands (0.50)