White subjects suppressed racist associations when the interviewer was Black.

Evidence

It is interesting to note that one in fifty reacted to the word Negro with Nazi or SS; when one knows the emotional meaning of the SS image, one recognizes that the difference from the other answers is negligible. Let me add that some Europeans helped me by giving the test to their acquaintances: In such cases the proportion went up notably. From this result one must acknowledge the effect of my being a Negro: Unconsciously there was a certain reticence. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the researcher-positionality concern that also shapes how Fanon frames the white gaze in the book’s opening chapters. — connects to: White respondents censored their answers in Fanon’s presence; Interviewed black servants suppressed negative truths out of politeness — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 192

Related

• White respondents censored their answers in Fanon’s presence (similarity 0.94)
• Interviewed black servants suppressed negative truths out of politeness (similarity 0.79)