Malcolm X’s house Negro trope indicts assimilated minorities who chase proximity to power.

Evidence

This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He’ll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about “I’m the only Negro out here.” “I’m the only one on my job.” “I’m the only one in this school.” You’re nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, “Let’s separate,“you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. “What you mean, separate? From America? This good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?” I mean, this is what you say. “I ain’t left nothing in Africa,” that’s what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 538

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks which the chapter quotes — house Negro as the racialized equivalent of the colonized wearing the white mask.
• DEFINE: Defines the “house Muslim” of the chapter title by analogy to Malcolm X’s house Negro.

Related

• Malcolm X diagnosed colonized loyalty through the house Negro figure (similarity 0.85)