Fanon & Sivanandan
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Fanon's ideas of subjecthood/objecthood that he touches upon in the beginning of "The Fact of Blackness" reminds me of W.E.B. Du Bois' concept of "double consciousness," which he defines as the struggle black Americans face when trying to remain true to black culture while conforming to white society. Du Bois explains how black folk in America are constantly looking at themselves through two unreconciled lenses, with their blackness and their American-ness constantly at odds with each other. Fanon expands on this through his idea of a triple vision. When he says "[the black man] must be black in relation to the white man," Fanon claims that at least within the American context, black identity cannot exist outside the context of the white gaze. By describing black subjecthood as a "solely negating identity," he suggests that black identity is only produced by negating all non-black identities, and is thus dependent on these other identities to create a sense of self. This results in the third-person consciousness, the constant insecurity that comes with existing in a black body in America.
Sivanandan's article also touches upon the inherent contradiction faced by black and brown people in the West, but it does so from the external perspective of the free market rather than an internal, embodied one like Fanon. He gives the example of "coloured" immigrants in Britain in the 1940s-50s: while many parts of British society came to rely on cheap, migrant labour as a source of profit which made them "economically desirable," the ideology of racism paired with the shortage of housing made them "socially undesirable." This allowed them to be exploited by British employers and landlords, who would underpay and overcharge these migrant workers, which was allowed by the foreign labour laws that prevented these workers from integrating into the British working class.
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Good comprehension and analysis of both Fanon and Sivanandan.