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  2. Black Skin, White Masks - Wikipedia

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    Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon.The book is written in the style of autoethnography, with Fanon sharing his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche.

  3. Frantz Fanon - Wikipedia

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    Black Skin, White Masks was first published in French as Peau noire, masques blancs in 1952 and is one of Fanon's most important works. In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon psychoanalyzes the oppressed black person who is perceived to have to be a lesser creature in the white world that they live in, and studies how they navigate the world through ...

  4. Toward the African Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Toward the African Revolution (French: Pour la Revolution Africaine) is a collection of essays written by Frantz Fanon, which was published in 1964, [1] after Fanon's death. The essays in the book were written from 1952 to 1961, between the publication of his two most famous works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.

  5. I Am a Martinican Woman - Wikipedia

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    In the second chapter of Black Skin, White Masks, entitled "The Woman of Color and the White Man," Frantz Fanon critiques I Am a Martinican Woman and psychoanalyzes the author through her text. Fanon writes: "For me, all circumlocution is impossible: Je suis Martiniquaise is cut-rate merchandise, a sermon in praise of corruption." He views the ...

  6. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask - Wikipedia

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    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask is a 1997 docudrama film about the life of the martiniquais psychiatrist and civil rights activist Frantz Fanon (1925–1961). The film was directed by Isaac Julien. [2]

  7. Masking (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    Frantz Fanon is credited with defining masking in his 1957 Black Skin, White Masks, which describes masking behavior in race relations within the stratified post-war United States. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Fanon explains how African-Americans, especially those of low social capital , adopted certain behaviors to resemble white people as well as other ...

  8. Sociogeny - Wikipedia

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    Fanon was a Martinican writer, revolutionary, and psychoanalyst whose work focused on the pathologies and neuroses produced through European colonialism. [3] In Black Skin, White Masks , Fanon expanded upon Freud 's concepts of ontogeny and phylogeny , alongside which Fanon placed sociogeny. [ 4 ]

  9. Mayotte Capécia - Wikipedia

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    In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon attacks Combette's writing for embodying self-hatred and 'lactification', or the internalisation of feelings of inferiority and the aspiration towards whiteness among black people. He accuses Mayotte of betraying her blackness by pursuing white men and having children with them.