i.’s Reviews > The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire > Status Update

"....human sexuality is systemically designated for white bodies and sexual savagery for non-white ones, Black bodies most of all....Here are histories of empire that are erotics of Aryanism and erotics of Aryanism that are histories of empire."

"The very notion of Western civilization is therefore founded on a primary opposition between white and non-white persons that is graphically sexualized....[after Wynter:] The Man of Reason claims to master the world of sensuality in which primitives are said to dwell."

"Routinely in this environment, critiques of sexism and homophobia see Black 'nationalist' militancy as synonymous with sexism and homophobia or sexual pathology...as if Black radical traditions of sexual politics could not possibly exist. This is...continuous with the erotics of Aryanism, that have historicall depicted the West as sexually civilized and Africa or the non-West as sexually savage."

"[Fanon's] early discussion of Negrophobia has incredibly radical implications for sexual thought of all kinds. As it wreaks havoc on the heterosexual and homosexual self-descriptions of the white West by demonstrating how racism consumes all sexual desires and identities."

"Reading Frazier against the grain with the revolutionized Fanon highlights rather than hides these social divisions and can demystify heterosexuality and homosexuality as well as manhood and womanhood as the racist ruling-class conceits of Western empire."

"Exposed then is how the West mobilizes the concepts of human sexuality & sexual historicity in its mission to present itself as the epitome of culture and civilization, the brutalities of colonization aside...The anti-matriarchalism of imperialism reveals a metaphysics of sexuality...the provincial sexual dichotomies of the West must be discerned and debunked...to recognize...Black radical traditions of resistance."

"...Africa and its Diaspora must battle continual colonization by 'masculinity' and 'femininity,' 'manhood' and 'womanhood,' as well as the 'heterosexuality' and 'homosexuality' commanding them. Then and only then...will we subvert the sexual demon of white power in 'America' and beyond."

"Walter Rodney decoded the 'neo' of neo-colonialism to describe the creation or consolidation of a 'petty-bourgeois' elite meant to perpetuate empire....The recent canonization fo sexual discourse in the WEst is a political and intellectual sign of these times."