Evidence
I could no longer laugh, because I already knew that there were legends, stories, history, and above all historicity, which I had learned about from Jaspers. Then, assailed at various points, the corporeal schema crumbled, its place taken by a racial epidermal schema. In the train it was no longer a question of being aware of my body in the third person but in a triple person. In the train I was given not one but two, three places. I had already stopped being amused. It was not that I was finding febrile coordinates in the world. I existed triply: I occupied space. I moved toward the other … and the evanescent other, hostile but not opaque, transparent, not there, disappeared. Nausea… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 395 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Valentine presented distorted ‘types’, not realistic portraits, to perpetuate Lost Cause myths — Essay: Racist Caricatures by Edward Valentine; White Americans distorted Black features, language, and culture to codify whiteness as its antithesis — Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype; Portraits can pierce historical misrepresentation and reveal flawed human nature. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1149 (+5 more)
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Broader Connections
- The white man’s stereotypes and historical images constitute the black man’s identity
#expands(0.85) - The racial epidermal schema replaces the corporeal schema under white regard
#expands(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 395 - Negative images of black women persisted into the 20th century
#corroborates(0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 197