Frantz Fanon · Politics
How colonialism manufactures an inferiority complex in its subjects - teaching them to despise their own language, culture, and body, and to reach for a ‘white mask’ they can never quite wear - and why, for Fanon, real decolonization must be psychological as well as political.
You learned that colonialism, for Fanon, manufactures an inferiority complex - the colonized learn to devalue their mother tongue and culture and to measure themselves against the colonizer (the ‘white mask’) - and that this internalized oppression means decolonization must be psychological, not just polit…
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