Negroes assume the same projective function as Jews for white self-purification

Evidence

The anti-Semite projects on to the Jew, ascribes to the Jew all his own more or less unconscious bad instincts… . Thus, in ridding himself of them by heaping them on the shoulders of the Jew, he has purged himself of them in his own eyes and sees himself in shining purity. The Jew thus lends himself magnificently to a projection of the Devil… . The Negro in the United States assumes the same function of fixation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 1020

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the projection mechanism described at 1010 and anticipates Sartre’s anti-Semite analysis. — connects to: A Jew who experienced anti-Semitism can still be racist toward Negroes; The Negro serves the same scapegoat function as the Jew; The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (+6 more)

Related

• The Negro serves the same scapegoat function as the Jew (similarity 0.93)
• A Jew who experienced anti-Semitism can still be racist toward Negroes (similarity 0.83)
• Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Semites are inevitably anti-Negro as well (similarity 0.80)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.79)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.79)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.79)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.78)
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior #expands (0.70)
• Anti-Semitism and Negrophobia share the same underlying structure #expands (0.70)
• Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition #corroborates (0.70)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others #expands (0.65)
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #expands (0.65)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites #contradicts (0.60)
• Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior #expands (0.60)