Western scholarship’s Hegelian grid cast Africa as manufactured barbarism

Evidence

The soil, which only a moment ago was still a tamed steed, begins to revel. Are these virgins, these nymphomaniacs? Black Magic, primitive mentality, animism, animal eroticism, it all floods over me. All of it is typical of peoples that have not kept pace with the evolution of the human race. Or, if one prefers, this is humanity at its lowest. Having reached this point, I was long reluctant to commit myself. Aggression was in the stars. I had to choose. What do I mean? I had no choice… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegel declared Africans incapable of universalist consciousness and therefore naturally enslaved; Western scholarship’s denial of Black radicalism served an ideology that obliterated the African; Pre-war Western thought deemed African belief illogical idolatry (+4 more)

Related

• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. (similarity 0.85)
• Hegel declared Africans incapable of universalist consciousness and therefore naturally enslaved (similarity 0.84)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.83)
• Western Africanist scholarship inherited a Hegelian grid of interpretation that denied African rationality (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel excluded Africa entirely from world history (similarity 0.82)
• Hegelian thought framed Africa as outside history to justify colonial supremacy. (similarity 0.81)
• Western scholarship’s denial of Black radicalism served an ideology that obliterated the African (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel’s philosophy constructed Africa as historyless to justify European conquest (similarity 0.81)
• Even philosophy’s greatest minds embraced racist hierarchies that justified colonization (similarity 0.80)
• African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s Philosophy of History denied Africans any harmonious humanity (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel denied Africans the universal category of reason and knowledge of God (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding. #corroborates (0.85)
• Western scholarship’s denial of Black radicalism served an ideology that obliterated the African #expands (0.70)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474
• Pre-war Western thought deemed African belief illogical idolatry #exemplifies (0.55)