Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials

Evidence

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates negritude. To the colonialist offensive against the veil, the colonized opposes the cult of the veil. What was an undifferentiated element in a homogeneous whole acquires a taboo character, and the attitude of a given Algerian woman with respect to the veil will be constantly related to her overall attitude with respect to the foreign occupation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165 (#expands, via linked claim)

But the constancy of my love had been forgotten. I defined myself as an absolute intensity of beginning. So I took up my negritude, and with tears in my eyes I put its machinery together again. What had been broken to pieces was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive lianas of my hands. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rastafarians remade themselves as political subjects by re-articulating borrowed biblical texts; The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s (+4 more)

Related

• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.79)
• Minority cultural works are pressured to speak for their entire community (similarity 0.79)
• Resistance languages are being built to topple the War on Terror (similarity 0.79)
• High culture is depicted as disarming the disenfranchised outsider. (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542
• Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s #complicates (0.60)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 831