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First published in French in Paris, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) did not attract much mainstream attention in English-speaking countries. It explored the effects of colonialism and imposing a servile psychology upon the colonized man, woman, and child.
The titular character of this book is a biracial Senegalese woman who rejects the advances of a black man even though he is devoted to her, because she wants to marry a white person. Fanon argues that Nini shows how black women internalize racist ideas which they direct at black men and ultimately also at themselves.
A classic of 1950s critical race studies, Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" is as relevant today as it was when first written. Studying his fellow Antillians, Fanon is struck by the alienation he sees in the psychological identities of his patients.
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 ...
"A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS FRANTZ FANON Translated by Charles Lam Markmann ~ Pluto .., Press . First published in 1986 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road. London N6 5AA
In the immediate half-decade that follows the publication of Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon revisits key claims about anti-blackness and the possibilities of Black life that enrich, deepen, and widen his formulations in 1952.