Frantz Fanon

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. “[Fanon] demonstrates how insidiously the problem of race, of color, connects with a whole range of words and images.” — Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review

Black Skin, White Masks

I enjoyed this it was a quick read, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite of he’s work 

Fanon work on the psychological effects on racism on racial relations between black and white people

I won’t lie the homophobia and misogyny threw me off

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color, I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Marion R

I enjoyed this it was a quick read, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite of he’s work 

Fanon work on the psychological effects on racism on racial relations between black and white people

I won’t lie the homophobia and misogyny threw me off

Favorite quote

“When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color, I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”

Winona 

A mostly excellent analysis of race relations, how racism distorts both colonized and colonizer, how racism fosters depersonalisation within Black men. However, it largely ignores Black women, and at one point it even actively reviles them. Fanon seemed to see Black women in terms of their relations with other men -- as an appendix to Black men's masculinity, in many ways. This definitely hampered my experience of the book, whilst also weakening his wider political theory.

Ciara Renaud

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Ezra Alie

An updated translation of the author's seminal work on black identity and race theory offers insight into its influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements throughout the world. Original.

Eva Talmadge

Lindsay Cronk

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an 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, it established Fanon as a revolutionary thinker and remains just as relevant and powerful today.

Black Skin, White Masks

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