Black Skin White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
What colonialism does to the mind of the colonized.
you want to understand racial identity as something imposed from outside rather than something that simply exists
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Fanon's earlier book — written as his doctoral thesis in 1952 — is more personal and more interior than The Wretched of the Earth. A young Black man from Martinique in France, experiencing racism for the first time, trying to understand what is happening to his sense of self. The dispatch from inside the experience of being looked at and found lacking by a civilization that trained you to see yourself through its eyes. The foundational text of postcolonial psychology and one of the most honest accounts of racialized identity ever written.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Martinique • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Martiniquais author
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireBorderlands
