WHAT IS DENIED THE COLONIAL SUBJECT, BOTH AS COLONIZER AND COLONIZED, IS THAT FORM OF NEGATION WHICH GIVES ACCESS TO THE RECOGNITION OF DIFFERENCE IN THE SYMBOLIC. IT IS THAT POSSIBILITY OF DIFFERENCE AND CIRCULATION WHICH WOULD LIBERATE THE SIGNIFIER OF SKIN/CULTURE FROM THE SIGNIFIEDS OF RACIAL TYPOLOGY, THE ANALYTICS OF BLOOD, IDEOLOGIES OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL DOMINANCE OR DEGENERATION.

"WHEREVER HE GOES," FANON DESPAIRS, "THE NEGRO REMAINS A NEGRO' - HIS RACE BECOMES THE INERADICABLE SIGN OF NEGATIVE DIFFERENCE IN COLONIAL DISCOURSE. FOR THE STEREOTYPE IMPEDES THE CIRCULATION AND ARTICULATION OF THE SIGNIFIER OF "RACE" AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN ITS FIXITY AS RACISM. WE ALWAYS, ALREADY KNOW THAT BLACKS ARE LICENTIOUS, ASIATICS DUPLICITOUS. . .

THERE IS A QUEST FOR THE NEGRO, THE NEGRO IS A DEMAND, ONE CANNOT GET ALONG WITHOUT HIM, HE IS NEEDED, BUT ONLY IF HE IS MADE PALATABLE IN A CERTAIN WAY. UNFORTUNATELY THE NEGRO KNOCKS DOWN THE SYSTEM AND BREAKS THE TREATIES.

AFFECTION AND HOSTILITY IN THE TREATMENT OF THE FETISH - WHICH RUN PARALLEL WITH THE DISAVOWAL AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF CASTRATION - ARE MIXED IN UNEQUAL PROPORTIONS IN DIFFERENT CASES, SO THAT THE ONE OR THE OTHER IS MORE CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE.

MY BODY WAS GIVEN BACK TO ME SPRAWLED OUT, DISTORTED, RECOLORED, CLAD IN MOURNING IN THAT WHITE WINTER DAY. THE NEGRO IS AN ANIMAL, THE NEGRO IS BAD, THE NEGRO IS MEAN, THE NEGRO IS UGLY; LOOK, A NIGGER, IT'S COLD, THE NIGGER IS SHIVERING BECAUSE HE IS COLD, THE LITTLE BOY IS TREMBLING BECAUSE HE IS AFRAID OF THE NIGGER, THE NIGGER IS SHIVERING WITH COLD, THAT COLD THAT GOES THROUGH YOUR BONES, THE HANDSOME LITTLE BOY IS TREMBLING BECAUSE HE THINKS THAT THE NIGGER IS QUIVERING WITH RAGE, THE LITTLE WHITE BOY THROWS HIMSELF INTO HIS MOTHER'S ARMS: MAMA THE NIGGER'S GOING TO EAT ME UP.