This chapter explores racial disembodiment as a transformation of bodily experience brought about by the internalization of racialized imaginaries. It focuses on the historical practice of simianization—through which nonwhite, especially Black subjects, are portrayed as nonhuman primates—to show how such imagery functions not merely as a stereotype, but as a powerful mechanism that reshapes how individuals perceive and experience their own bodies. Rooted in scientific discourse, colonial narratives, and visual media, simianization anchors racial difference in the body itself, imposing a dehumanizing image that may be taken up as one’s own. Building on Frantz Fanon’s concept of the “racial epidermal schema” and George Yancy’s “elevator effect,” the chapter argues that racialization configures body image through the internalization of the white gaze. This affects not only how the body is viewed from the outside, but how it is inhabited from within. The result is a form of self-alienation in which the subject’s sense of embodiment is filtered through imposed meanings, compromising their capacity to live in and through their body with spontaneity and freedom.