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| White Types in Black Lives |
| In Ego Development and Historical Change, Erik Erikson provides an intriguing jumping-off point for a closer examination of the white image in the black mind: I know of a colored boy who, like our boys, listens every night to the Lone Ranger. Then he sits up in bed, dreaming that he is the Ranger. But alas, the moment always comes when he sees himself galloping after some masked offenders and notices that in his image the Lone Ranger is a Negro. He stops his fantasies. While a child, this boy was extremely expressive, both in his pleasures and in his sorrows. Today he is calm and always smiles; and his language is soft and blurred; nobody can hurry him, or worry him, or please him. White men like him. 1 The predictable reaction to this passage would be to investigate the black person. This chapter, however, analyzes how black writers have represented the identity type with which Erikson ends his comments: the white person who "likes" him--the white person who often demands that blacks keep him safe from the racial matters that constitute how his personality and psychology are manifested in his relations with blacks. |
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