Black Skin White Masks

This centurys most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis. 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon's urgent dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker. . 'So hard to put down ... a brilliant vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair' The New York Times Book Review|Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique and studied medicine in France specializing in psychiatry. Sent to a hospital in Algeria he found his sympathies turning towards the Algerian Nationalist Movement which he later joined. He is considered one of the most important theorists of the psychology of race and his books Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have been extremely influential.|This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism|Fanon is our contemporary because when he psychoanalysed the way the French coloniser looked at Arabs he is also describing the way the police looked at Stephen Lawrence. In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism and how some of us have been staged in its psychodrama|A brilliant vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair. . . He demonstrates how insidiously the problem of race of color connects with a whole range of words and images. . . It is Fanon the man rather than the medical specialist or intellectual who makes the book so hard to put down|'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon's urgent dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker. 'So hard to put down ... a brilliant vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair' The New York Times Book Review