White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger.

Evidence

Every intellectual gain requires a loss in sexual potential. The civilized white man retains an irrational longing for unusual eras of sexual license, of orgiastic scenes, of unpunished rapes, of unrepressed incest. In one way these fantasies respond to Freud’s life instinct. Projecting his own desires onto the Negro, the white man behaves “as if’ the Negro really had them. When it is a question of the Jew, the problem is clear: He is suspect because he wants to own the wealth or take over the positions of power. But the Negro is fixated at the genital; or at any rate he has been fixated there. Two realms: the intellectual and the sexual. An erection on Rodin’s Thinker is a shocking thought. One cannot decently “have a hard on” everywhere. The Negro symbolizes the biological danger; the Jew, the intellectual danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the two symbolic realms assigned to Negro and Jew: the biological/sexual versus the intellectual.
• XREF: connects to: White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation; White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge; Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 192 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 336
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #expands (0.60)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked #complicates (0.55)