Scientific and religious reason proved Negro humanity, yet this victory proved hollow.

Evidence

With enthusiasm I set to cataloguing and probing my surroundings. As times changed, one had seen the Catholic religion at first justify and then condemn slavery and prejudices. But by referring everything to the idea of the dignity of man, one had ripped prejudice to shreds After much reluctance, the scientists had conceded that the Negro was a human being; in vivo and in vitro the Negro had been proved analogous to the white man: the same morphology, the same histology. Reason was confident of victory on every level. I put all the parts back together. But I had to change my tune. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 434

Categorization

• QUESTION: Exactly which scientists and works proved Negro-white morphological and histological analogy? Fanon alludes without citing.
• XREF: connects to: The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 428; A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 822

Related

• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present (similarity 0.83)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.81)
• Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (similarity 0.80)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.79)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.79)
• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself (similarity 0.79)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. (similarity 0.79)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.79)
• Cataloguing Negro reality always feels incomplete (similarity 0.79)
• Negritude writers inverted white stereotypes into self-affirmation (similarity 0.78)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.78)
• White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride (similarity 0.78)
• Fanon’s closeness to the alienated barred him from scientific objectivity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 822
• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 428