Latent Orientalism is an unchanging unconscious baseline while manifest Orientalism absorbs all change

Evidence

The distinction I am making is really between an almost unconscious (and certainly an untouchable) positivity, which I shall call latent Orientalism, and the various stated views about Oriental society, languages, literatures, history, sociology, and so forth, which I shall call manifest Orientalism. Whatever change occurs in knowledge of the Orient is found almost exclusively in manifest Orientalism; the unanimity, stability, and durability of latent Orientalism are more or less constant. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 514

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional distinction of the field: latent vs manifest Orientalism, the stable unconscious core versus the changing stated surface views.
• XREF: This latent/manifest distinction maps onto Gramsci’s sense/common-sense vs philosophy, and to the scaffolding vocabulary of hegemony the reader is assembling for Islamophobia readings.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 514