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The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonisation of a person and of a people.
Frantz Omar Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, which was then part of the French colonial empire.His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, worked as a customs officer, while Fanon's mother, Eléanore Médélice, who was of Afro-Caribbean and Alsatian descent, was a shopkeeper. [17]
Concerning Violence is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson. [2] [3] It is based on Frantz Fanon's essay, Concerning Violence, from his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth. [4]
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.
Wretched of the Earth is a coalition of climate justice groups led by Indigenous people and people of colour [1] based in the United Kingdom, [2] representing the interests of the Global South and people of color in response to climate change. [3] The organisation's name is based on Frantz Fanon's book on anti-colonial theory, The Wretched of ...
The work is often read in conjunction with Frantz Fanon's Les damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) and Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) and Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism. Several decades later, Memmi published a follow-up book called Decolonization and the Decolonized.
The word Lumpenproletariat, popularized in the West by Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth in the 1960s, has been adopted as a sociological term. However, what some consider to be its vagueness and its history as a term of abuse has led to some criticism.
The Wretched of the Earth; Reading Capital; The Society of the Spectacle; Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Ways of Seeing; How Europe Underdeveloped Africa; Social Justice and the City; Women, Race and Class; Marxism and the Oppression of Women; Imagined Communities; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy; The ...