The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man.

Evidence

This work represents the sum of the experiences and observations of seven years; regardless of the area I have studied, one thing has struck me: The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. Therefore I have been led to consider their alienation in terms of psychoanalytical classifications. The Negro’s behavior makes him akin to an obsessive neurotic type, or, if one prefers, he puts himself into a complete situational neurosis. In the man of color there is a constant effort to run away from his own individuality, to annihilate his own presence. Whenever a man of color protests, there is alienation. Whenever a man of color rebukes, there is alienation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214; White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks; The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.

Related

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.92)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.90)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.89)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.87)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him (similarity 0.83)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.82)
• Both the Negrophile and the Negrophobe are equally sick (similarity 0.81)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.81)
• Racist whites and alienated blacks both exhibit pathological rather than normal human psychology. (similarity 0.80)
• The Negro’s neurotic conflict offers only two unhealthy exits before a universal leap (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.80)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. (similarity 0.80)
• Negritude was born as a rejection of colonial self-alienation among Antilleans (similarity 0.80)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #complicates (0.55)
• White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks #contradicts (0.50)