Political Geography by Sara Smith

Author:Sara Smith [Smith, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119315155
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2020-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Decolonization Begins With Thought – On Being Ethnographically Detained

As soon as the native begins to pull on his moorings, and to cause anxiety to the settler, he is handed over to well‐meaning souls who in cultural congresses point out to him the specificity and wealth of Western values. But every time Western values are mentioned they produce in the native a sort of stiffening or muscular lockjaw. During the period of decolonization, the native's reason is appealed to … But it so happens that when the native hears a speech about Western culture he pulls out his knife – or at least he makes sure it is within reach. The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values over the ways of life and of thought of the native mean that, in revenge, the native laughs in mockery when Western values are mentioned in front of him. In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

(Fanon 1963, p.42)

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