Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out

Evidence

There are times when the black man is locked into his body. Now, “for a being who has acquired consciousness of himself and of his body, who has attained to the dialectic of subject and object, the body is no longer a cause of the structure of consciousness, it has become an object of consciousness.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance; The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation; The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635 (+4 more)

Related

• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.88)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.88)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.85)
• The Negro’s racial drama stays conscious because it is played out in the open (similarity 0.84)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.83)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (similarity 0.81)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.81)
• Being limited to one’s own environment keeps the Negro unaware of the myth (similarity 0.80)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.79)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.79)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.78)
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.78)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.85)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation #expands (0.70)
• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge #expands (0.55)