Status Updates From Pele Negra, Máscaras Brancas

There is shockingly more Freud in this book than i initially expected - Oedipus is everywhere!

The next chunk of the chapter is all about the irrational sexual basis for phobia of black people, most notably black men. Uses anti-semitism, which is founded on Jewish proportional representation in economics, as a point of comparison, to demonstrate how the two phobias overlap and differ. As one might expect, there are some absolutely wild passages in this section.

Unfortunately, I’m no smarter when it comes to Freudian psychoanalysis than I am regarding post-war French and French-colonial literature. But basically chapter 6 starts with him discussing how and why the psychology of white and black people is fundamentally different, largely tying it back to the family dynamic and its relationship to broader society.