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1925 to 1961, Fort-de-France, Martinique
How colonialism wounds the mind as well as the body - the epidermal shame of the white gaze, the psychology of decolonization, and the call to invent a new humanism.
Start learning Frantz →Fanon’s phenomenology of racism in Black Skin, White Masks : how the white gaze fixes the black man from outside, shatters his sense of his own body, and replaces his ordinary body-image with a ‘racial epide…
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…
The most controversial argument in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth : that colonialism is founded and held in place by violence, and that its undoing therefore involves violence - which, at the level of the indiv…
Fanon’s prophetic warning, written as empires were falling, that formal independence is not liberation - that a self-serving national middle class can simply step into the departed colonizer’s shoes, betray…
The closing vision of The Wretched of the Earth : Fanon’s call to ‘leave this Europe’ - which preaches humanity while murdering it - and to ‘work out new concepts’ and ‘set afoot a ne…
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