Exposing native informers means removing their false white mask

Evidence

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, as the supreme symbolist of our psyche once said, and sometimes a pair of innocent-looking shoes is all you have to throw at the cruel fate facing you. Do not interpret the world, a man in German shoes once said—change it! In the final analysis neither should the native informer be demonized nor the recodification of racism fetishized. False consciousness is just how commodity fetishization and alienation operate. But in my mirror, the native informer cannot hide, for in his mirror I have shown him his face—taken the white mask off his brown skin. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 637

Categorization

• XREF: The title gesture — ‘taken the white mask off his brown skin’ — directly invokes Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, which this whole book engages.
• DEFINE: Clarifies what the chapter’s project is: reflection as counter-technique, showing the informer their own face rather than demonizing them.

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