Recognition in the racist gaze makes subjects alien to themselves

Evidence

This represents a project of governance that, even where relatively effective from the point of view of racial rule, was never quite complete. One might say it never could be complete, for subjection in both (and related) senses of the term promotes its resistance; imposition from the outside - the external - calls forth at least redefinition internally, in terms of the already (pre-) existing sum of defining conditions of the self, and at most outright, explicit rejection, denial, dismissal. The self accordingly is always caught - split - between the past and the present, the self itself (so to speak, as already socially defined and conditioned) and the social, between self-assumption and imposition, in short, between “my”-self and its other. This is especially so in the context of race: race as socially (and state) imposed and as taken on “freely,” assumed as a project, as a self-making. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1681 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Positing oneself as object before an absolute non-objective subject produces fear and alienation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 786; Each additional spectator multiplies the Other’s alienation and makes reappropriation impossible; The racial gaze subjects the observed to a humiliating double-consciousness — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 878 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Racist misrecognition is introjected so deeply it makes the subject Other to itself #corroborates (0.97)
• Racial subjection is never complete because imposed identity provokes internal redefinition #complicates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1681