ABSTRACT
The critical work of post-colonial critics, that bespeaks the continued fascination with the way white minds, particularly the colonial imperialist traveler, perceive blackness, and very little expressed interest in representations of whiteness in the black imagination. Black cultural and social critics allude representations in their writing, yet only a few have dared to make explicit those perceptions of whiteness that they think discomfort or antagonize readers. In white supremacist society, white people can 'safely' imagine that they are invisible to black people since the power they have historically asserted, and even now collectively assert over black people, accorded them the right to control the black gaze. An effective strategy of white supremacist terror and dehumanization during slavery centered on white control of the black gaze. Critically examining the association of whiteness as terror in the black imagination, deconstructing it, names racism's impact and help to break its hold.
