Racist misrecognition is introjected so deeply it makes the subject Other to itself

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

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Defines Fanon’s coinage ‘epidermalization’ as the introjection of racist misrecognition under the skin.

Related

• Racist gazes can make colonized subjects become Other to themselves (similarity 0.91)
• Identity gets constituted when the Other’s gaze names it (similarity 0.80)