Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself

Evidence

The white man chooses the black man for this function, and the black man who is white also chooses the black man. The black Antillean is the slave of this cultural imposition. After having been the slave of the white man, he enslaves himself. The Negro is in every sense of the word a victim of white civilization. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious; The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671; The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474 (+15 more)

Related

• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.90)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.89)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.88)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.87)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.86)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.85)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.85)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.85)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.84)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.84)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.83)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.83)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #expands (0.60)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him #corroborates (0.60)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes so fully that they become anti-Negro #expands (0.55)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.50)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers #corroborates (0.50)
• Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 673
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white #expands (0.50)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. #expands (0.50)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #corroborates (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity #expands (0.45)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 75
• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged #expands (0.40)