Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy

Evidence

When one reads this passage a dozen times and lets oneself go–that is, when one abandons oneself to the movement of its images–one is no longer aware of the Negro but only of a penis; the Negro is eclipsed. He is turned into a penis. He is a penis. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mechanism by which racist fantasy projects sexual objectification onto the Negro body.
• XREF: connects to: Perceived Negro sensuality is a cultural imposition, not an inherent quality; White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge; The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (+9 more)

Related

• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.89)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.82)
• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (similarity 0.82)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.82)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.80)
• Negritude writers inverted white stereotypes into self-affirmation (similarity 0.80)
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge (similarity 0.80)
• The colonial image of Africa forced blacks into self-contempt (similarity 0.80)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.79)
• Perceived Negro sensuality is a cultural imposition, not an inherent quality (similarity 0.79)
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures (similarity 0.79)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.79)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.78)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.78)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought #expands (0.70)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked #corroborates (0.65)
• Contrived liberal endings encode postimperial white paternal fantasies. #corroborates (0.60)
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial anthropology reduced African rites to obscene black magic #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 473
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself #expands (0.50)