ABSTRACT
Due to its being grounded in prejudice, racism – Benjamin Isaac noted – is made conspicuous by ‘an emotional and rigid attitude which it is difficult or impossible to modify by rational argument or practical experience’. 1 Frantz Fanon’s personal account is paradigmatic:
‘Maman, look, a Negro; I’m scared!’ . . . My body was returned to me spread-eagled, disjointed, redone, draped in mourning on this white winter’s day. The Negro is an animal, the Negro is bad, the Negro is wicked, the Negro is ugly; look, a Negro . . . 2
