Frantz Fanon · Politics
Fanon’s phenomenology of racism in <em>Black Skin, White Masks</em>: how the white gaze fixes the black man from outside, shatters his sense of his own body, and replaces his ordinary body-image with a ‘racial epidermal schema’ woven from other people’s myths.
You learned that Fanon described racism from the inside - the moment of being fixed by the white gaze (‘Look, a Negro!’), the collapse of the ordinary body-image into a ‘racial epidermal schema,’ and the ‘zone of nonbeing’ the colonized are pushed into. Explain these ideas in your o…
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