Negro suicide statistics contradict claims that Negroes never kill themselves

Evidence

Since then, M. Deshaies has taken the question of suicide as the subject of his thesis. He demonstrates that the studies by Jaensch, who contrasted the disintegrated-personality “type” (blue eyes, white skin) to the integrated-personality “type” (brown eyes and skin), are predominantly specious. … According to Durkheim, Jews never committed suicide. Now it is the Negroes. Very well: “The Detroit municipal hospital found that 16.6% of its suicide cases were Negroes, although the proportion of Negroes in the total population is only 7.6%. In Cincinnati, the number of Negro suicides is more than double that of whites; this may result in part from the amazing sexual disparity among Negro suicides: 358 women against 76 men.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 1035

Categorization

• QUESTION: The sexual disparity (358 women vs 76 men) among Negro suicides is striking and unexplained — worth investigating.
• SEED: Angle: how racist pseudoscience (Jaensch typology) was empirically demolished by a thesis, and how suicide statistics became a site of contested racial claims.
• XREF: connects to: Negro suicide rates far exceed their share of the US population

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