When recognition is denied, the Black subject resolves to assert blackness forcibly.

Evidence

What! When it was I who had every reason to hate, to despise, I was rejected? When I should have been begged, implored, I was denied the slightest recognition? I resolved, since it was impossible for me to get away from an inborn complex, to assert myself as a BLACK MAN. Since the other hesitated to recognize me, there remained only one solution: to make myself known. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 414

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mechanism by which denied recognition triggers self-assertion as a BLACK MAN.
• XREF: connects to: An educated Black professional seeks to reverse role hierarchy by commanding white subordinates.; A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal.; Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon (+7 more)

Related

• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.85)
• The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place (similarity 0.84)
• Hurt by racial hatred, the Black man resolves to defeat white error through reason. (similarity 0.80)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.80)
• Rejected by reason, the black man regresses into irrationality as a deliberate weapon (similarity 0.80)
• The rejected Black man defines himself as one who waits and investigates. (similarity 0.79)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.79)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hurt by racial hatred, the Black man resolves to defeat white error through reason. #responds-to (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 429