Jamal Awil

← Black skin, white masks

Society denies black students full racial identity. [fact]

Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. “You’re ‘us,’” Coulanges tells him; and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 252