Black Skin, White Masks by Constance Farrington, Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks



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ISBN: 0802150845, 9780802150844
Publisher: Grove Press
Page: 127
Format: pdf


Exploring the life & work of Frantz Fanon. In Black Skin White Masks, he describes how language and being marginalized as a result of an unchanagable attribute - race, can create a pathology in the oppresed simply as a function of assimulation. Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon's, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. But I remember nothing from it, except that he was angry. As I was reading Fanon's article, what instantly sprang to mind was Hegel's 'master-slave' dialectics. I had no comment to offer on Tiger Woods' indiscretions until I rediscovered the above quote. Fanon so perfectly describes Woods' sickness that it demanded I proceed. I also had to read extracts from Fanon's Wretched of the Earth in college. ---Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. The black man has internalized what Chateerjee terms as. Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks' inspires paper on colouredness. By nycparis on October 26, 2012. Fanon makes a compelling case in the usage of language as a way to illustrate how the colonizers instill a feeling of inferiority among the people to whom they have colonized.