White refusal to release the past drove blacks toward racial pride

Evidence

You come too late, much too late. There will always be a world–a white world–between you and us… . The other’s total inability to liquidate the past once and for all. In the face of this affective ankylosis of the white man, it is understandable that I could have made up my mind to utter my Negro cry. Little by little, putting out pseudopodia here and there, I secreted a race. And that race staggered under the burden of a basic element. What was it? Rhythm! — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 444

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others; The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority; White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 427 (+7 more)

Related

• Rejection by white reason drove blacks to embrace irrationality (similarity 0.86)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Whiteness and blackness are each lived as mythic, opposing existential essences (similarity 0.82)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.81)
• White solidarity as a racial identity was a myth obscuring shared exploitations (similarity 0.81)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.79)
• African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority (similarity 0.79)
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks (similarity 0.79)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.78)
• Scientific and religious reason proved Negro humanity, yet this victory proved hollow. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #complicates (0.75)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt #complicates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 474