White people historically portrayed black people as evil, dark, and dirty due to a superiority complex. They also felt inferior to black people's perceived physical strength and sexual prowess. Black people consequently developed an inferiority complex because their skin color was associated with these negative attributes, while white skin was seen as pure and innocent. Even in predominantly black societies, black children were told to stop "acting like niggers" for misbehaving and associate themselves with being "white as snow" when behaving well. The desire to be white was so internalized that black characters like Pecola in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye wished for blue eyes, thinking it would make her more accepted in a white world. Fairness cre
1. Prepared by Architaba Gohil
Semester 3
Batch 2016-18
Paper: 11 Post colonial literature
Topic: The Black Man and psychopathology
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University
2. • Psychopathology is the
scientific study of mental
disorders, including efforts to
understand their
genetic, biological, psychologica
l, and social causes; effective
classification schemes
(nosology); course across all
stages of development;
manifestations; and treatment.
The term may also refer to the
manifestation of behaviors that
indicate the presence of a
mental disorder.
3. White man are having superiority complex(chapter 4) And to prove
themselves superior they portrayed black people as evil, dark and dirty.
on the same hand they(white people) feels inferior because they believe
that black people are physically or say sexually more stronger than white
people and white men fear that they (black person) will take white women
from them.
For example Iago is jealous because Othello takes away his white women
Desdemona.
4. • Black person are having inferiority complex because of their color.
• The color being seen as evil, bad, dark and dirty and color of white as
pure, innocent and clean.
5. • Even in Martinique where fanon grew up and
where nearly everyone was black, his mother
would tell him to “stop acting like a nigger”
if he did something wrong. And if his conscience
was clear he would say he was “white as
snow”.
6. Desire to be white
• Pecola is female protagonist of the novel the bluest eye
by Toni Morrison. She was struggling in white world
because of her black skin color and she had desire to get
blue eyes she thinks that by having the blue eyes she
would be excepted in white world.
7. Desire to be white
Beauty means white- this idea is so much internalized in
Indian mind. And this idea is more developed after fairness
cream advertisement .
Why we need fairness cream ?
Why can’t we accept the people in way they are ?
Why color matter a lot than person ?
Answer of these questions is it is so much internalized
8. • Here is guide to brown girl in the video in
next slide. You should not fill inferior to
other whether you are black or brown.
