Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments

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 white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity; The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man; The white gaze returns the black body to its owner distorted and demonized (+8 more)

Related

• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.92)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.89)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.89)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.88)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.84)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (similarity 0.83)
• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white (similarity 0.83)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.82)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness (similarity 0.81)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.81)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.80)
• White acceptance of the Black man requires denying he is black. (similarity 0.80)
• Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack (similarity 0.80)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.79)
• Achieving morality requires the Negro to erase his own image from consciousness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The white gaze returns the black body to its owner distorted and demonized #corroborates (0.85)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.80)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824
• Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior #expands (0.75)
• The first encounter with a white man oppresses the Negro with his full blackness #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 577
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought #expands (0.60)