Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior

Evidence

Fanon is concerned here with how rituals of racist misrecognition are introjected - his word is “epidermalized” - so as to induce a form of a narcissistic trauma. Following on from Sartre’s model of the “petrification” of the subject’s desire in the look of the Other, Fanon suggests that when blacks discover themselves objectified in the negrophobic, or even merely clinical, gaze of the white colonialist, in so far as they recognize themselves in that structure of misrecognition, they can only become Other to themselves. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1344 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Misunderstanding among black subjects before whites reveals a failure of judgment; Internalized whiteness collapses when the real white man demands total whiteness (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Racist gazes can make colonized subjects become Other to themselves #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1344
• Internalized whiteness collapses when the real white man demands total whiteness #expands (0.60)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others #expands (0.60)
• Dreaming oneself white is a normal Antillean response to socialization #exemplifies (0.50)
• Misunderstanding among black subjects before whites reveals a failure of judgment #complicates (0.40)