Negritude functions as a transitional dialectical moment, not a final end
Evidence
But that does not prevent the idea of race from mingling with that of class: The first is concrete and particular, the second is universal and abstract; the one stems from what Jaspers calls understanding and the other from intellection; the first is the result of a psychobiological syncretism and the second is a methodical construction based on experience. In fact, negritude appears as the minor term of a dialectical progression: The theoretical and practical assertion of the supremacy of the white man is its thesis; the position of negritude as an antithetical value is the moment of negativity. But this negative moment is insufficient by itself, and the Negroes who employ it know this very well; they know that it is intended to prepare the synthesis or realization of the human in a society without races. Thus negritude is the root of its own destruction, it is a transition and not a conclusion, a means and not an ultimate end. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 507 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Intellectual paradigm shifts never completely break from prior positions.; Negritude is a transitional dialectical stage, not a final end — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 507; Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity (+4 more)
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- Rational argument cannot correct Negrophobia because it is prelogical (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Negritude is a transitional dialectical stage, not a final end
#corroborates(1.00) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 507 - Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity
#complicates(0.60) - Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions
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