Black Skin, White Masks
Ranked #14 in Psychoanalysis, Ranked #22 in Black and White — see more rankings.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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... more
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... more
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Jonathan Webber Fanon was particularly interested in the psychiatric problems you could face if you were a victim of racism, particularly of anti-black racism in France. (Source)
Kurt Barling Fanon was saying that black people are re-burdened by skin colour in a white-dominated society. (Source)
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Black Skin, White Masks is ranked in the following categories:
- #83 in Academia
- #39 in African History
- #85 in Existentialism
- #42 in Marxism
- #82 in Political Theory
- #91 in Racism
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