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Black Skin White Masks Frantz Fanon |
Black Skin White Masks is in part a psychological analysis on the identity problem of the Black man. It attempts to explain by way of pathology and philosophy the state of being a Negro.
He describes many of the attitudes he has personally encountered regarding the Black man's attitudes in a white world.
...observe the desperate struggles of a Negro who
is driven
to discover the meaning of [B]lack identity.
White civilization and European culture have
forced an existential deviation on the Negro....what is often called the
Black soul is a white man's artifact.
The educated Negro, slave of the spontaneous and cosmic Negro myth, feel at a given stage that his race no longer understands him. Or that he no longer understands it.
Then he congratulates himself on this, and
enlarging the difference, the incomprehension, the disharmony, he finds in
them the meaning of his real humanity.
Frantz Fanon was born on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. He studied medicine in France where he, specialized in psychiatry.
"Only a few of us who read this book will understand the problems that were encountered in it's composition."