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)
Related
- Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. (similarity 0.92)
- The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.83)
- Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute.
#corroborates(0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713 - Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy
#expands(0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616 - The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them
#expands(0.60) - The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited
#expands(0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668