The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance

Evidence

All the same, the Jew can be unknown in his Jewishness. He is not wholly what he is. One hopes, one waits. His actions, his behavior are the final determinant. He is a white man, and, apart from some rather debatable characteristics, he can sometimes go unnoticed. He belongs to the race of those who since the beginning of time have never known cannibalism. What an idea, to eat one’s father! Simple enough, one has only not to be a nigger. Granted, the Jews are harassed–what am I thinking of? They are hunted down, exterminated, cremated. But these are little family quarrels. The Jew is disliked from the moment he is tracked down. But in my case everything takes on a new guise. I am given no chance. I am overdetermined from without. I am the slave not of the “idea” that others have of me but of my own appearance. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 416 (#expands, via linked claim)

There are times when the black man is locked into his body. Now, “for a being who has acquired consciousness of himself and of his body, who has attained to the dialectic of subject and object, the body is no longer a cause of the structure of consciousness, it has become an object of consciousness.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824 (#expands, via linked claim)

The white man chooses the black man for this function, and the black man who is white also chooses the black man. The black Antillean is the slave of this cultural imposition. After having been the slave of the white man, he enslaves himself. The Negro is in every sense of the word a victim of white civilization. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process.; The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him; Liberation announced from without produced psychoses in black slaves rather than transformation. (+19 more)

Related

• Black identity is overdetermined from outside by appearance, unlike Jewish identity which allows concealment. (similarity 0.88)
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.86)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.85)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.83)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.82)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.81)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.81)
• Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.80)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.80)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.79)
• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white (similarity 0.78)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.78)
• The black subject should act on social structures, not keep his place (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black identity is overdetermined from outside by appearance, unlike Jewish identity which allows concealment. #expands (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 416
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671