The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance

Evidence

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates negritude. To the colonialist offensive against the veil, the colonized opposes the cult of the veil. What was an undifferentiated element in a homogeneous whole acquires a taboo character, and the attitude of a given Algerian woman with respect to the veil will be constantly related to her overall attitude with respect to the foreign occupation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘white man creates the Negro, Negro creates negritude’ formula connects to Fanon’s own earlier work and the dialectic of colonial identity. — connects to: Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it; Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history; The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (+23 more)

Related

• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.89)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.88)
• Minority cultural works are pressured to speak for their entire community (similarity 0.88)
• Resistance languages are being built to topple the War on Terror (similarity 0.87)
• Rastafarians remade themselves by appropriating and transforming borrowed cultural materials (similarity 0.86)
• High culture is depicted as disarming the disenfranchised outsider. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.83)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.81)
• The colonized withhold truth from the colonizer as a defense. (similarity 0.81)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonized revolt springs from suffocation, not from rediscovered culture #contradicts (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 831
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421