Racist gazes can make colonized subjects become Other to themselves

Evidence

Fanon is concerned here with how rituals of racist misrecognition are introjected - his word is “epidermalized” - so as to induce a form of a narcissistic trauma. Following on from Sartre’s model of the “petrification” of the subject’s desire in the look of the Other, Fanon suggests that when blacks discover themselves objectified in the negrophobic, or even merely clinical, gaze of the white colonialist, in so far as they recognize themselves in that structure of misrecognition, they can only become Other to themselves. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1344

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key definitional grounding for the concept of epidermalization as introjected racist misrecognition.
• XREF: Epidermalization is a concept that appears across vault CRT material; this passage anchors its precise meaning. — connects to: Recognition in the racist gaze makes subjects alien to themselves; The uncanny in racism arises from the Other within the self — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1397; Racism works by making the dominated experience themselves as Other. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Recognition in the racist gaze makes subjects alien to themselves #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism works by making the dominated experience themselves as Other. #corroborates (0.92)
• Racist misrecognition is introjected so deeply it makes the subject Other to itself #expands (0.88)
• Cultural recognition itself can trap colonized subjects inside their difference #expands (0.85)
• The uncanny in racism arises from the Other within the self #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1397
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #qualifies (0.75)