While both the yellow woman and the black man are bodies subject to colonization, the discourse and terms of the theft are significantly different: one dehumanizing fate is to become a machine while the other is to become a monstrosity. It’s the difference between the persistent enfleshment of the black body and the insistent “syntheticness” attributed to the yellow body. The wearable black body is emphatically corporeal (extending the frail white body by making it more capable, more present, more real), while the wearable yellow female body is desirable for its aesthetic affinity and its
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