The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt

Evidence

The soil, which only a moment ago was still a tamed steed, begins to revel. Are these virgins, these nymphomaniacs? Black Magic, primitive mentality, animism, animal eroticism, it all floods over me. All of it is typical of peoples that have not kept pace with the evolution of the human race. Or, if one prefers, this is humanity at its lowest. Having reached this point, I was long reluctant to commit myself. Aggression was in the stars. I had to choose. What do I mean? I had no choice… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (+30 more)

Related

• Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder. (similarity 0.91)
• African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (similarity 0.86)
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.85)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves (similarity 0.85)
• Africa functions as a signifier for repressed racialized experience (similarity 0.85)
• Livingstone’s antislavery writings shaped British public opinion about Africa (similarity 0.83)
• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. (similarity 0.83)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.83)
• Western scholarship’s Hegelian grid cast Africa as manufactured barbarism (similarity 0.83)
• Racial dehumanization intensified precisely as enslaved Africans assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.82)
• Fanon’s analytic aim is freeing blacks from colonial-produced complexes (similarity 0.82)
• White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #corroborates (0.80)
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #exemplifies (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336
• Colonial anthropology reduced African rites to obscene black magic #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 473
• Pre-war Western thought deemed African belief illogical idolatry #corroborates (0.50)