The Negro faces the white man burdened with a past to legitimate

Evidence

The Negro, however sincere, is the slave of the past. None the less I am a man, and in this sense the Peloponnesian War is as much mine as the invention of the compass. Face to face with the white man, the Negro has a past to legitimate, a vengeance to exact; face to face with the Negro, the contemporary white man feels the need to recall the times of cannibalism. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 825

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the reader’s focus on how externally educated (white-masked) subjects carry a legitimizing burden before the white gaze. — connects to: The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal; The white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity; The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (+8 more)

Related

• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present (similarity 0.85)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness (similarity 0.84)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.83)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.81)
• Blaming the Negro for past cannibalism marks progress over fearing him in the present. (similarity 0.80)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.80)
• An ancient Negro past cannot ground the colonized subject’s humanity. (similarity 0.79)
• Knowing a past Negro civilization grants no present humanity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A rediscovered Negro past confers no humanity or guidance on the present #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 822