I find myself among a people whose culture controls me, has even in a sense, created me, people who have cost me more in anguish and rage than they will ever know, who yet do not even know of my existence. On the issue of recognition and the practice of imperialist racial domination. On the deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness that secures whiteness as the privileged signifier. Dyer on the problem of cultural markers as fixed in relation to wWhite and bBlack. They are a fantasy, a projection onto the Other that makes them less threatening.
Stereotypes abound when there is a distance.
She ''re-inhabits a location'' where black folks associated whiteness with the terrible, the terrifying, the terrorizing. On the value of 'theorizing black experience' to uncover, restore.