Black Skin, White Masks

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Grove Press, 2008 - History - 206 pages
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

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Contents

THE BLACK MAN AND LANGUAGE
1
THE WOMAN OF COLOR AND THE WHITE MAN
24
THE MAN OF COLOR AND THE WHITE WOMAN
45
THE SOCALLED DEPENDENCY COMPLEX OF THE COLONIZED
64
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACK MAN
89
THE BLACK MAN AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
120
THE BLACK MAN AND RECOGNITION
185
B The Black Man and Hegel
191
BY WAY OF CONCLUSION
198
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About the author (2008)

Martinique islander by birth and a psychiatrist by training, Franz Fanon is better known as a pan-African revolutionary ideologue. His treatises on colonialism call for revolutionary confrontation with malignant colonial regimes, where necessary on the battlefield, and, more important, for the eradication of the most invidious form of colonialism, namely, colonial mentality. Fanon holds that this mentality prevents the African and the black person everywhere even from being aware of the seriousness of the social and personal deprivations of his or her colonized status. Fanon found his voice when he worked for the Algerian revolutionaries during the Algerian War of Independence against the French. Not only did he become deeply involved in the Algerian struggle, he also emerged as its principal ideologue and formulated his anticolonial writings from the Algerian experience.