White Frenchmen denied black men any share in their cultural tradition
Evidence
It must be said in his defense that he stank of cheap wine; if he had been capable of it, he would have told me that my emancipated-slave blood could not possibly be stirred by the name of Villon or Taine. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 441
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: French institutions denied Black intellectuals the universality they pursued.; French society grants educated colonial subjects status only by denying their Negro identity; Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 273 (+4 more)
Related
- French institutions denied Black intellectuals the universality they pursued. (similarity 0.93)
- White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.84)
- French society grants educated colonial subjects status only by denying their Negro identity (similarity 0.82)
- White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.81)
- White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.81)
- External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.80)
- French colonial freedom only lets the Negro mimic, not be, a master (similarity 0.79)
- Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.78)
- France’s authority over the black man rests on its intellectuals and institutions (similarity 0.78)
- White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black.
#exemplifies(0.85) - White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness
#expands(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251 - Western scholars long denied any coherent tradition of Black radicalism
#corroborates(0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 393