The indifference behind pidgin speech angers blacks more than hostility would

Evidence

Mannoni has described what he calls the Prospero complex. We shall come back to these discoveries, which will make it possible for us to understand the psychology of colonialism. But we can already state that to talk pidginnigger is to express this thought: “You’d better keep your place.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 126 (#expands, via linked claim)

Yes, the black man is supposed to be a good nigger; once this has been laid down, the rest follows of itself. To make him talk pidgin is to fasten him to the effigy of him, to snare him, to imprison him, the eternal victim of an essence, of an appearance for which he is not responsible. And naturally, just as a Jew who spends money without thinking about it is suspect, a black man who quotes Montesquieu had better be watched. Please understand me: watched in the sense that he is starting something. Certainly I do not contend that the black student is suspect to his fellows or to his teachers. But outside university circles there is an army of fools: What is important is not to educate them, but to teach the Negro not to be the slave of their archetypes. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 132 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forcing pidgin on black people imprisons them in a white-defined essence — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 132; White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks; Speaking pidgin to blacks expresses the demand that they keep their place. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 126 (+1 more)

Related

• Speaking pidgin to blacks expresses the demand that they keep their place. (similarity 0.92)
• Forcing pidgin on black people imprisons them in a white-defined essence (similarity 0.88)
• The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Speaking pidgin to blacks expresses the demand that they keep their place. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 126
• Forcing pidgin on black people imprisons them in a white-defined essence #qualifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 132
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation #expands (0.55)
• White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks #complicates (0.40)