The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present.

Evidence

To many colored intellectuals European culture has a quality of exteriority. What is more, in human relationships, the Negro may feel himself a stranger to the Western world. Not wanting to live the part of a poor relative, of an adopted son, of a bastard child, shall he feverishly seek to discover a Negro civilization? — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869 (#expands, via linked claim)

The discovery of the existence of a Negro civilization in the fifteenth century confers no patent of humanity on me. Like it or not, the past can in no way guide me in the present moment. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 822 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity; Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past.; Working-class Blacks think in the present and reject Negro-past discovery. (+4 more)

Related

• Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past. (similarity 0.96)
• Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past. (similarity 0.94)
• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.94)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.90)
• Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (similarity 0.89)
• Fanon rejects reviving a Negro past to ground identity (similarity 0.88)
• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present (similarity 0.87)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. (similarity 0.85)
• Reclaiming an ancient Negro civilization does not change present colonial suffering. (similarity 0.82)
• Recovering a glorious precolonial past cannot change present colonial suffering (similarity 0.79)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.79)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.79)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.78)
• Genuine black culture cannot emerge under present colonial conditions. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past #corroborates (0.85)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869
• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 822