The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered

Evidence

It is Bigger Thomas–he is afraid, he is terribly afraid. He is afraid, but of what is he afraid? Of himself. No one knows yet who he is, but he knows that fear will fill the world when the world finds out. And when the world knows, the world always expects something of the Negro. He is afraid lest the world know, he is afraid of the fear that the world would feel if the world knew. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549
• XREF: connects to: The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis; The colonial subject fears being discovered, dreading the world’s reaction to his true self; The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (+9 more)

Related

• The colonial subject fears being discovered, dreading the world’s reaction to his true self (similarity 0.88)
• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (similarity 0.88)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance (similarity 0.82)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.82)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes (similarity 0.79)
• Du Bois described the Negro as ‘born with a veil… always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.’ (similarity 0.79)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (similarity 0.79)
• Being limited to one’s own environment keeps the Negro unaware of the myth (similarity 0.79)
• The Negro’s neurotic conflict offers only two unhealthy exits before a universal leap (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance #qualifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 750
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 718
• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 747