The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots.

Evidence

What are the terms of this problem? Jean Veneuse is a Negro. Born in the Antilles, he has lived in Bordeaux for years; so he is a European. But he is black; so he is a Negro. There is the conflict. He does not understand his own race, and the whites do not understand him. And, he observes, “The Europeans in general and the French in particular, not satisfied with simply ignoring the Negro of the colonies, repudiate the one whom they have shaped into their own image.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots; The colonial subject’s very identity is constituted by the white man’s arrival; External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (+2 more)

Related

• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.88)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.88)
• Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial formation produces a diasporic outsider subjectivity within the imperial metropole (similarity 0.87)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.86)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.86)
• The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society (similarity 0.86)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.86)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.84)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.84)
• The returned Negro’s adopted superiority is punished by his community’s unforgiving scrutiny (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.83)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• The colonial subject’s very identity is constituted by the white man’s arrival #expands (0.70)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222