White-produced children’s comics make colonized children identify against their own race.

Evidence

In every society, in every collectivity, exists–must exist–a channel, an outlet through which the forces accumulated in the form of aggression can be released. This is the purpose of games in children’s institutions, of psychodramas in group therapy, and, in a more general way, of illustrated magazines for children –each type of society, of course, requiring its own specific kind of catharsis. The Tarzan stories, the sagas of twelveyear-old explorers, the adventures of Mickey Mouse, and all those “comic books” serve actually as a release for collective aggression. The magazines are put together by white men for little white men. This is the heart of the problem. In the Antilles–and there is every reason to think that the situation is the same in the other colonies –these same magazines are devoured by the local children. In the magazines the Wolf, the Devil, the Evil Spirit, the Bad Man, the Savage are always symbolized by Negroes or Indians; since there is always identification with the victor, the little Negro, quite as easily as the little white boy, becomes an explorer, an adventurer, a missionary “who faces the danger of being eaten by the wicked Negroes.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Explains how the ‘externally educated’ narrative infiltrates even locally raised children through mass media, producing self-alienation in both. — connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity.; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: the psychological effects of fictional representation on colonized and minoritized children as a mechanism of internalized self-hatred.

Related

• Antillean children write fantasies that deny their own black identity. (similarity 0.94)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.81)
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #corroborates (0.85)