Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers
Evidence
I said just above that South Africa has a racist structure. Now I shall go farther and say that Europe has a racist structure. It is plain to see that M. Mannoni has no interest in this problem, for he says, “France is unquestionably one of the least racialist-minded countries in the world.” Be glad that you are French, my fine Negro friends, even if it is a little hard, for your counterparts in America are much worse off than you… . France is a racist country, for the myth of the bad nigger is part of the collective unconscious. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
Categorization
- XREF: Directly contesting Mannoni’s claim that colonial racism is the province of marginal adventurers — and this anticipates the famous turn on the ‘collective unconscious’ in Chapter Six. — connects to: The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing.; Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues; Racism is rooted in concrete material conditions, not ruling-class conspiracy or error (+25 more)
Related
- Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.93)
- Europeans’ racist treatment of Asians marked the real debut of the crime (similarity 0.92)
- Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.92)
- Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.90)
- Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking (similarity 0.87)
- Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (similarity 0.86)
- England built its history on racial duality while France long asserted national homogeneity (similarity 0.86)
- Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.86)
- Late-nineteenth-century racial theory was nearly undisputed in European culture (similarity 0.85)
- Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.85)
- Racism is rooted in concrete material conditions, not ruling-class conspiracy or error (similarity 0.85)
- European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery (similarity 0.83)
- European race prejudice would persist even if blacks lived in metropolitan France (similarity 0.83)
- The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.83)
- Racism, not migrancy, should frame European postcolonial settlement history (similarity 0.81)