Mannoni overlooked that the torturers of Malagasy defendants were themselves black Senegalese police
Evidence
So, when one reads such things, it certainly seems that M. Mannoni allowed one aspect of the phenomena that he analyzes to escape him: The black bull and the black men are neither more nor less than the Senegalese police torturers. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 948
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban analysis of colonial psychology; Fanon’s skewering of it. — connects to: The brutal overseers in Madagascar torture were themselves black Senegalese troops.; Mannoni studied the Malagasy as if colonial contact never happened.