Black Skin, White Masks

Posted on 23 December 2018 by 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 Read Black Skin, White Masks – kino-fada.fr Black Skins White Masks is a scary book In it Fanon discusses the black man s experience in a white world he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speakThe N enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behaves in accordance with a neurotic orientationThe crux of the work resides on the black man s experience and how he is perceived, and how he is forced to perceive himself Fanon argues that language is t Black Skins White Masks is a scary book In it Fanon discusses the black man s experience in a white world he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speakThe N enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behaves in accordance with a neurotic orientationThe crux of the work resides on the black man s experience and how he is perceived, and how he is forced to perceive himself Fanon argues...There is plenty to critique in this book, and I think the urge to critique is heightened by the author s ubiquity For one, Fanon is deeply misogynist and homophobic He writes that it is in refusing to acknowledge the black man that the white man strips him of his subjectivity, and yet he writes nary a word about the black woman The greatest irony of the book is that the chapter entitled The Woman of Color and the White Man is really a chapter about how black men perceive black women, and it There is plenty to critique in this book, and I think the urge to critique is heightened by the author s ubiquity For one, Fanon is deeply misogynist and homophobic He writes that it is in refusing to acknowledge the black man that the white man strips him of his subjectivity, and yet he...I appreciate this book and the way it turned the mirror back on me and made me question certain practices I have in the context of my Blackness and how I ve been conditioned to assimilate to certain European cultural practices that I can never truly be a part of by de facto This book is a must read for those who study topics of race relations, cultural studies, and Black African Afro Caribbean history.My only negative comment is that I wish Fanon would have devoted real time to looking at the I appreciate this book and the way it turned the mirror back on me and made me question certain practices I have in the context of my Blackness and how I ve been conditioned to assimilate to certain European cultural practices that I can never truly be a part of by de facto This book is a must read for those who study topics of race relations, cultural studies, and Black African Afro Caribbean history.My only negative comment is that I wish Fanon would have devoted rea...3.5 5 What is there to say Purely and simply this 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 t 3.5 5 What is there to say Purely and simply this 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. This book is to The ...This book is a must read for any young person of colour who has found himself existentially agitated by, what one might call, his condition I don t mean that in a negative, medical sense I mean it as in any condition, like the human condition It s simply false to imply that it means nothing to be coloured in a post colonial world We can agree that it shouldn t mean anything, but it does, and so we have to grapple with that, and Frantz Fanon is a good way in.It s written elegantly and it s This book is a must read for any young person of colour who has found himself existentially agitated by, what one might call, his condition I don t mean that in a negative, medical sense I mean it as in any condition, like the human condition It s simply false to imply that it means nothing to be coloured in a post colonial world We can agree that it shouldn t mean anything, but it does, and so we have to grapple with that, and Frantz Fanon is a good way in.It s written elegantly and it s simple to understand The writer is clearly extremely well versed in intellectual matters and provides an arsenal of sources and texts to analyse in order to prove his points This doesn t make it tedious as you might imagine it takes you on a journey through intellectual thought around the post colonial race relations si...fanon takes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and his incredible mind and goes amazing places evades being bogged down by psychoanalytic dogma, while using its concepts to tease out a living constellation of power relations and problems of race and representation so apt and agile and fascinating that it gets my 5 stars despite its raging sexism, ablism, homophobia The first lines are just stunning The explosion will not happen today It is too soon or too late I did not come with timeles fanon takes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and his incredible mind and goes amazing places evades being bogged down by psychoanalytic dogma, while using its concepts to tease out a living constellation of power relations and problems of race and representation so apt and agile and fascinating that it gets my 5 stars despite its raging sexism, ablism, homophobia The first lines are just stunning The explosion will not happen today It is too soon or too...As a black man, reading Fanon has had a profound, almost revolutionary impact on me When I think about the past and how things were and how far we have come I shed tears of remorse for those of whom have fallen victim, been destroyed, been hated, been cast out, been taught to self hate,under the condescending eye of the white man.But again as an individual, as an intellectual, and as a Christian there are principles that have come to define the philosophy I live by Indicated by three simple ma As a black man, reading Fanon has had a profound, almost revolutionary impact on me When I think about the past and how things were and how far we have come I shed tears of remorse for those of whom have fallen victim, been destroyed, been hated, been cast out, been taught to self hate,under the condescending eye of the...I am black I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia I am truly a drop of sun under the earth p 27 Thus Fanon reaches into the experience and meaning of the black m...As someone without much formal training in psychology or sociology, andsignificantly as a white middle class male, it difficult for me to find a comfortable vantage from which to discuss this book and perhaps that uneasiness is part of the point Fanon s exegesis of the impact of colonialism on colonized peoples, and the psychological displacement and cultural violence that arises from such interactions, is compelling and exa...haunting and rightfully paranoid thought on anti blackness as psycho existential structure , and for a psych h8r like myself an inspired bit of disciplinary criticism from the vantage of the behaviourist turn, eyeing both philosophy and methods, with an absolutely cutting bit on adlerian psychoanalysis as a way of laundering and privatising general dishonour towards the end a...

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23 December 2018

Frantz Fanon