Racist whites and alienated blacks both exhibit pathological rather than normal human psychology.

Evidence

To these objections I reply that the subject of our study is the dupes and those who dupe them, the alienated, and that if there are white men who behave naturally when they meet Negroes, they certainly do not fall within the scope of our examination. If my patient’s liver is functioning as it should, I am not going to take it for granted that his kidneys are sound. Having found the liver normal, I leave it to its normality, which is normal, and turn my attention to the kidneys: As it happens, the kidneys are diseased. Which means simply that, side by side with normal people who behave naturally in accordance with a human psychology, there are others who behave pathologically in accordance with an inhuman psychology. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 114

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon defines the study’s scope: only the alienated (duped blacks and duping/duped whites) count as the objects of analysis, contrasted with ‘normal’ people who behave naturally.
• XREF: connects to: Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214; Poor whites’ violent race consciousness reflects their own race-defined condition.

Related

• Poor whites’ violent race consciousness reflects their own race-defined condition. (similarity 0.87)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.80)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. (similarity 0.80)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.80)
• Fanon’s closeness to the alienated barred him from scientific objectivity (similarity 0.79)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.78)
• Fanon’s sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject’s alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity. (similarity 0.78)
• Black alienation is a social phenomenon, not merely individual psychology. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214