Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness

Evidence

J. J. Thomas was one of those who expressed strong race pride. He was only too conscious of the extent of self-contempt and self-hatred among his fellow blacks in the West Indies. He saw how the values of white superiority had been internalised, with disastrous results. One factor in this process, in his view, was the education of young West Indians by white teachers. He thought their influence was ‘to a very great degree subversive of the national sentiment,’ by which he meant racial consciousness.” … “There were individually brilliant blacks. But there had to be ‘some potential agency to collect and adjust them into the vast engine essential for executing the true purposes of the civilised African Race.’” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal; Colonial schooling creates the dependence complex it then blames on the Negro (+37 more)

Related

• For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.91)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial schooling creates the dependence complex it then blames on the Negro (similarity 0.90)
• White teachers’ education subverted West Indian racial consciousness. (similarity 0.90)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.84)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial education programs made Negroes into white men then blamed them for their dependence. (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.83)
• A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. (similarity 0.83)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.83)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.83)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #corroborates (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him #corroborates (0.90)
• White teachers’ education subverted West Indian racial consciousness. #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. #expands (0.80)
• White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 570
• Dreaming oneself white is a normal Antillean response to socialization #expands (0.75)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview #exemplifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes #expands (0.70)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 585
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 672
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code #expands (0.70)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.60)