The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.‘

Evidence

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Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This statement may not be readily accepted.’ — Black Skin, White Masks (English translation, The Showroom PDF); A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 563

Related

• Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This… (similarity 0.92)
• A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. (similarity 0.83)
• Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites. (similarity 0.83)
• Fanon reads Freud as holding that a normal child in a normal family becomes a normal adult, then argues this developmental model does not apply in the colonial context. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. #corroborates (1.00) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 563