White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness

Evidence

When the question is put directly, then, the white man agrees to give his sister to the black–but on one condition: You have nothing in common with real Negroes. You are not black, you are “extremely brown.” … This procedure is quite familiar to colored students in France. Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. “You’re ‘us,’” Coulanges tells him; and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. But Jean Veneuse does not want this. He cannot accept it, because he knows. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I had rationalized the world and the world had rejected me on the basis of color prejudice. Since no agreement was possible on the level of reason, I threw myself back toward unreason. It was up to the white man to be more irrational than I. Out of the necessities of my struggle I had chosen the method of regression, but the fact remained that it was an unfamiliar weapon; here I am at home; I am made of the irrational; I wade in the irrational. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 447 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Accepting European-imposed separation drives the black subject to seek elevation within a racial hierarchy; A white-supremacist society generates the black man’s neurotic wish to be white; Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (+32 more)

Related

• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.86)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.86)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.86)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.84)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.84)
• Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality (similarity 0.83)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.83)
• White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride (similarity 0.83)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.81)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.81)
• Whiteness and blackness are each lived as mythic, opposing existential essences (similarity 0.81)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.81)
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect (similarity 0.80)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251
• Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 447
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 38