The Negro

A historical social construct and racial category referring to Black/African-descended people, discussed in these claims as a constructed identity that was socially produced rather than inherent, used as a scapegoat, and used to justify economic exploitation and the erasure of African history and humanity. The term is examined critically in the source texts, notably in psychoanalytic and critical-theory contexts (e.g., discussions of racial symbolism and scapegoating paralleling antisemitism).

Claims that use this term

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior
• The Negro problem is economic exploitation, not racial coexistence
• The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss
• The Negro serves the same scapegoat function as the Jew
• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself
• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression