Both speak on the problem of people of color adopting a white perspective

Hum introduces her idea of Design to talk about the racialized gaze. Her term, Design is related to both the noun and the verb. Design as verb “spotlights the processes of stregic choice making involved in deploying representational resources, such as images and words, to enact our communicative purposes” (Hum 191). Design as a noun: “focuses on the existing resources from which those representations are crafted” (Hum 191).

She explains that to better study English, the theory of this two-fold Design must be examined to gives a better account “for dominant perceptual habits that function both to constrain acts of choice making and to restrict the repertoire of available resources” (Hum 192). To do that she goes on to use the focus the rest of her writing on the racialized gaze.

One particularly striking speaking point in Hum’ writing is that of the habit of people of color internalizing a white racialized gaze. She remarks on Franz Fanon curiously explaining “seeing himself through white eyes” (Hum 194). She, further explains that black people are not only subject to this aspect of being seen, but also highly effected in the way of looking and cites W. E. B DuBois saying “none of the colored folk I knew were so poor, drunken and sloven as some of the lower Americans and Irish” (Hum 194) Basically, the racialized gaze is about seeing and being seen, and no one escapes the effects of the phenomenon. 

Gates is more focused on writing especially. He talks black people not be allowed to write because of writing being said to reason, and reason being tied to one's humanity. He explains that in order to prove their humanity they wrote furiously, demonstrating their access to higher though and reason. The catch here is that in order to prove their ability to write and write well, they must write in a way that is valueable to those denouncing their abililty -- they must adopt what Hum calls the racialized gaze. He explains the difficulties in the success of black people writing without doing harm to themselves by writing furthering a harmful racialized gaze.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. “Writing ‘Race’ and the Difference It Makes.” Critical Inquiry 12.1 (1985): 1-20.

Hum, Sue. “‘Between the Eyes’: Racialized Gaze as Design.” College English 77.3 (2015): 191-215.