Jamal Awil

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Blackness was associated with cannibalism in colonial racial myth. [fact]

I had a great many talks with this patient. When she was ten or twelve years old, her father, "an old-timer in the Colonial Service," liked to listen to programs of Negro music. The tom-tom echoed through their bouse every evening, long after she had gone to bed. Besides, as we have pointed out, it is at this age that the savage-cannibal-Negro makes his appearance. The connection was easily discernible.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 747