Ultimately the individual assimilates all the authorities that he meets to the authority of the parents: He perceives the present in terms of the past. Like all other human conduct, behavior toward authority is something learned. And it is learned in the heart of a family that can be described, from the psychological point of view, by the form of organization peculiar to it–that is, by the way in which its authority is distributed and exercised.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 562