The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place

Evidence

What! When it was I who had every reason to hate, to despise, I was rejected? When I should have been begged, implored, I was denied the slightest recognition? I resolved, since it was impossible for me to get away from an inborn complex, to assert myself as a BLACK MAN. Since the other hesitated to recognize me, there remained only one solution: to make myself known. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 414 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yes, the black man is supposed to be a good nigger; once this has been laid down, the rest follows of itself. To make him talk pidgin is to fasten him to the effigy of him, to snare him, to imprison him, the eternal victim of an essence, of an appearance for which he is not responsible. And naturally, just as a Jew who spends money without thinking about it is suspect, a black man who quotes Montesquieu had better be watched. Please understand me: watched in the sense that he is starting something. Certainly I do not contend that the black student is suspect to his fellows or to his teachers. But outside university circles there is an army of fools: What is important is not to educate them, but to teach the Negro not to be the slave of their archetypes. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 132 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An educated Black professional seeks to reverse role hierarchy by commanding white subordinates.; The materially exploited Negro turns to struggle, not intellectual analysis.; When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 414 (+5 more)

Related

• Forcing pidgin on black people imprisons them in a white-defined essence (similarity 0.85)
• When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly. (similarity 0.84)
• The indifference behind pidgin speech angers blacks more than hostility would (similarity 0.84)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.83)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.81)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.80)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.80)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.80)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.80)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.79)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.79)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.79)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 414
• Forcing pidgin on black people imprisons them in a white-defined essence #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 132
• Speaking pidgin to blacks expresses the demand that they keep their place. #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 126
• Accepting European-imposed separation drives the black subject to seek elevation within a racial hierarchy #complicates (0.60)
• Race and class must be analyzed as articulated, not causally reduced #expands (0.50)