Trechos Fanon
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What does the black man want? At the risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man. There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born. In most cases, the black man lacks the advantage of being able to accomplish this descent into a real hell. (Fanon, 2008, p. 1-2) In spite of this it is apparent to me that the effective disalienation of the black man entails an immediate recognition of social and economic realities. If there is an inferiority complex, it is the outcome of a double process: —primarily, economic; — subsequently, the internalization—or, better, the epidermalization —of this inferiority. (Fanon, 2008, p. 4) We must see whether it is possible for the black man to overcome his feeling of insignifi cance, to rid his life of the compulsive quality that makes it so like the behavior of the phobic. Affect is exacerbated in the Negro, he is full of rage because he feels small, he suffers from an inadequacy in all human communication, and all these factors chain him with an unbearable insularity. (Fanon, 2008, p. 35) All forms of exploitation resemble one another. They all seek the source of their necessity in some edict of a Biblical nature. All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same “object”: man. When one tries to examine the structure of this or that form of exploitation from an abstract point of view, one simply turns one’s back on the major, basic problem, which is that of restoring man to his proper place. Colonial racism is no different from any other racism. (Fanon, 2008, p. 65) A white man in a colony has never felt inferior in any respect. (...) The colonial, even though he is “in the minority,” does not feel that this makes him inferior. (...) The feeling of inferiority of the colonized is the correlative to the European’s feeling of superiority. Let us have the courage to say it outright: It is the racist who creates his inferior. (Fanon, 2008, p. 68-69) Referência. FANON, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
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Trechos de Frantz Fanon
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What does the black man want? At the risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man. There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born. In most cases, the black man lacks the advantage of being able to accomplish this descent into a real hell. (Fanon, 2008, p. 1-2)
In spite of this it is apparent to me that the effective disalienation of the black man entails an immediate recognition of social and economic realities. If there is an inferiority complex, it is the outcome of a double process: —primarily, economic; —subsequently, the internalization—or, better, the epidermalization—of this inferiority. (Fanon, 2008, p. 4)
We must see whether it is possible for the black man to overcome his feeling of insignifi cance, to rid his life of the compulsive quality that makes it so like the behavior of the phobic. Affect is exacerbated in the Negro, he is full of rage because he feels small, he suffers from an inadequacy in all human communication, and all these factors chain him with an unbearable insularity. (Fanon, 2008, p. 35)
All forms of exploitation resemble one another. They all seek the source of their necessity in some edict of a Biblical nature. All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same “object”: man. When one tries to examine the structure of this or that form of exploitation from an abstract point of view, one simply turns one’s back on the major, basic problem, which is that of restoring man to his proper place. Colonial racism is no different from any other racism. (Fanon, 2008, p. 65)
A white man in a colony has never felt inferior in any respect. (...) The colonial, even though he is “in the minority,” does not feel that this makes him inferior. (...) The feeling of inferiority of the colonized is the correlative to the European’s feeling of superiority. Let us have the courage to say it outright: It is the racist who creates his inferior. (Fanon, 2008, p. 68-69)
Referência.FANON, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
