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On Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, ch. 7, B. "The Negro and Hegel." Hegel describes the abstract attainment of self-consciousness through recognition, but is this actually how it works in real slavery and its aftermath? Read along with us, p. 216 (PDF p. 234). You can choose to watch this on video.
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a lot of career ambition, I think, is predicated on getting recognition from people who are not loved ones. And the more the merrier, right? And it's kind of a one-way street. It doesn't require any intimacy or any complications of ordinary relationships.
“The upheaval did not make a difference in the Negro. He went from one way of life to another, but not from one life to another.”
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