Perceived Negro sensuality is a cultural imposition, not an inherent quality

Evidence

M. Salomon’s study informs us that he is a physician. He should be wary of those literary points of view that are unscientific. The Japanese and the Chinese are ten times more prolific than the Negro: Does that make them sensual? And in addition, M. Salomon, I have a confession to make to you: I have never been able, without revulsion, to hear a man say of another man: “He is so sensuall” I do not know what the sensuality of a man is. Imagine a woman saying of another woman: “She’s so terribly desirable–she’s darling… .” The Negro, M. Salomon, gives off no aura of sensuality either through his skin or through his hair. It is just that over a series of long days and long nights the image of the biological-sexual-sensual-genital-nigger has imposed itself on you and you do not know how to get free of it. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713; The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them; Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616 (+2 more)

Broader Connections