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Black Skin, White Masks
by: Frantz Fanon

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896
EAN: 9780802143006
ISBN: 0802143008
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 10, 2008
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 5977
Studio: Grove Press

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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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- visionary, an essential work
The editorial review provided by Amazon is truly scurrilous. It devotes more space to the European traditions incorporated into Fanon's work than his own scholarship, and barely acknowledges the place of "Black Skin, White Masks" in post-colonial criticism. This subjective study of race in mid-century French Empire is a must read for anyone who claims to be educated on the subject. The racist myths undermined in this work are legion, even if its logic is controvertible at a few points.

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- Race Theory
If you want to understand racial identity, you should read Fanon's approach. The most influential author on ethnicity and colonization in the twentieth century.

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- From a teacher's perspective
Frantz Fanon was a contemporary writer of the 1950's. Born in Martinique, he studied psychiatry and medicine in France as a young man after volunteering his services in World War II. He had an educational background in post colonial studies including racism and colonization. At the age of 27 he published "Black Skin, White Masks" which played a vital role in civil rights and Black consciousness movements throughout its time. Fanon's analysis of the Black psyche, "Black Skin, White Masks", was amazingly interesting and educational. It gave me a fresh perspective to what it means to live as the minority, as a person of color in a White world. This is a wonderful review of how the French of different backgrounds interacted with each other. There are also a few downfalls in understanding "Black Skin, White Masks". This book is hard to follow because it jumps around quite a bit, making various points throughout ... Read More

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- Language and Colonization
Fanon really draws you in with this book. One feels involved with Fanon's fight not just against racism and colonization, but also his own self evaluation and struggle within himself to accept himself for who he is.

Among other things, what struck me the most was the way Fanon showed that minorities do not feel inferior because they were thrust in the midst of a majority. Considering that South Africa has minority white population and yet the black population there took on the brunt of racism and that had nothing to do with the minority subjugation.

Another line of thought that Fanon brings about is the domination of the colonized language. In Martinique, the average middle class family would insist children to speak French like the French would and not the commonly spoken Creole. The Martinican returning from France was expected to uphold that standard and speak proper French. If he reverted ... Read More

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