Progress in the racial myth is moving cannibalism to the past tense
Evidence
Recently, in a children’s paper, I read a caption to a picture in which a young black Boy Scout was showing a Negro village to three or four white scouts: “This is the kettle where my ancestors cooked yours.” One will gladly concede that there are no more Negro cannibals, but we should not allow ourselves to forget… . Quite seriously, however, I think that the writer of that caption has done a genuine service to Negroes without knowing it. For the white child who reads it will not form a mental picture cf the Negro in the act of eating the white man, but rather as having eaten him. Unquestionably, this is progress. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 717 (
#expands, via linked claim)
In the first chapter of the history that the others have compiled for me, the foundation of cannibalism has been made eminently plain in order that I may not lose sight of it. My chromosomes were supposed to have a few thicker or thinner genes representing cannibalism. In addition to the sex-linked, the scholars had now discovered the raciallinked. What a shameful science! — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest; Blaming the Negro for past cannibalism marks progress over fearing him in the present. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 717; Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437 (+1 more)
Related
- Blaming the Negro for past cannibalism marks progress over fearing him in the present. (similarity 0.90)
- Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. (similarity 0.84)
- Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits (similarity 0.82)
- Moral and physiological traits were fused onto racialized types to ground genetic universal claims (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Blaming the Negro for past cannibalism marks progress over fearing him in the present.
#expands(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 717 - Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes.
#corroborates(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437 - Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest
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