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Frantz Fanon · 1952
A foundational critique of colonialism and racism examining the psychological and existential impact of white supremacy on Black identity and consciousness. Fanon, a psychiatrist and philosopher, analyzes the internalized inferiority complex imposed by colonial systems and argues for the liberation of Black people from both external oppression and internalized self-alienation.
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What this book knows
Colonial racism is a psychic wound: the Black subject is forced into a fractured identity by a white world that makes skin a mask.
self-and-identity
He will lock himself in his room and read for hours—desperately working on his diction, listening to himself speak and not trusting his own tongue.
BSWM-RC-009The Antillean who gets annoyed at being taken for Senegalese: closer to the white man, and this difference exists not only on the street but in the administration and the army.
BSWM-RC-012embodiment
I considered this internal kinship from the universal level of the intellect—the alert was soon over; in the United States, Blacks are segregated; in West Africa, the black man is a beast of burden.
BSWM-RC-060Two things contributed to estrangement: the color of his skin and his nakedness, since I imagined the black man naked—a remote, almost nonexistent, black and naked being.
BSWM-RC-109shame
It is because the black woman feels inferior that she aspires to gain admittance to the white world—an attempt at securing, through internalization, the once forbidden values.
BSWM-RC-031White folk refusing to accept me as one of their own and black folk virtually repudiating me—an attitude of recrimination toward the past, a lack of self-esteem.
BSWM-RC-039Illuminates
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