The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world.

Evidence

We understand now why the black man cannot take pleasure in his insularity. For him there is only one way out, and it leads into the white world. Whence his constant preoccupation with attracting the attention of the white man, his concern with being powerful like the white man, his determined effort to acquire protective qualities–that is, the proportion of being or having that enters into the composition of an ego. As I said earlier, it is from within that the Negro will seek admittance to the white sanctuary. The attitude derives from the intention. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 184

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s psychoanalysis of colonial subjects — the drive toward whiteness that both education paths feed. — connects to: For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 42; The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence.; The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 577 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 184

Broader Connections

• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 42
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. #corroborates (0.85)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man #expands (0.60)
• A white-supremacist society generates the black man’s neurotic wish to be white #expands (0.60)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 577