The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him
Evidence
Willy-nilly, the Negro has to wear the livery that the white man has sewed for him. Look at children’s picture magazines: Out of every Negro mouth comes the ritual “Yassuh, boss.” It is even more remarkable in motion pictures. Most of the American films for which French dialogue is dubbed in offer the type-Negro: “Sho’ goodl” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 130 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; The Negro is forced to wear the stereotype livery the white man has sewed. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 130; The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (+4 more)
Related
- The Negro is forced to wear the stereotype livery the white man has sewed. (similarity 0.91)
- The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.83)
- The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.83)
- The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.83)
- Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.81)
- Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
- Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.81)
- Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered (similarity 0.81)
- The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.80)
- The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.79)
- Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.79)
- A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.79)
- Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.79)
- Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.78)
- Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The Negro is forced to wear the stereotype livery the white man has sewed.
#corroborates(1.00) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 130 - The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance
#corroborates(0.85) - The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.
#expands(0.80) - Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry
#expands(0.60) - The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate
#exemplifies(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341