Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites

Evidence

There is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. … There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at all costs, the richness of their thought, the equal value of their intellect. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 38 (#expands, via linked claim)

When the question is put directly, then, the white man agrees to give his sister to the black–but on one condition: You have nothing in common with real Negroes. You are not black, you are “extremely brown.” … This procedure is quite familiar to colored students in France. Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. “You’re ‘us,’” Coulanges tells him; and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. But Jean Veneuse does not want this. He cannot accept it, because he knows. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others; The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.; Black men compulsively seek to prove intellectual equality to white men (+7 more)

Related

• Black men compulsively seek to prove intellectual equality to white men (similarity 0.93)
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect (similarity 0.90)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.88)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.87)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.86)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.84)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.83)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.83)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.83)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.82)
• Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past. (similarity 0.81)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.81)
• Scientific and religious reason proved Negro humanity, yet this victory proved hollow. (similarity 0.79)
• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.79)
• Achieving morality requires the Negro to erase his own image from consciousness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 38
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #expands (0.75)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.70)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251