Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers.
Evidence
I turn away from these inspectors of the Ark before the Flood and I attach myself to my brothers, Negroes like myself. To my horror, they too reject me. They are almost white. And besides they are about to marry white women. They will have children faintly tinged with brown. Who knows, perhaps little by little… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421
Categorization
- XREF: This is precisely the contrast between locally educated and externally educated colonial subjects the reader is investigating. — connects to: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage; Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (+3 more)
- QUESTION: What exactly drives externally educated Blacks to repudiate dark-skinned fellow subjects — internalized whiteness or strategic whitening through marriage?
Related
- Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.87)
- Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.86)
- Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.86)
- Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.84)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.83)
- Europe-educated colonials are repudiated by the very whites who shaped them. (similarity 0.82)
- Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.82)
- Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.81)
- External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.80)
- White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Europeans did not view dark-skinned Africans as naturally inferior. (similarity 0.78)