Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

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               Welcome to my blog. This blog is a part of my thinking activity task wich was assigned by Dr. Barad sir. In this particular blog I have to write about my understanding about the work "Black Skin, White Masks".  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. 

💠 About Author :-

                Frantz Fanon  was  born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon (1925–1961) was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring. 

             Fanon engaged the fundamental issues of his day: language, affect, sexuality, gender, race and racism, religion, social formation, time, and many others.

💠 BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS :-

"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 -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. 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."

                       In Black Skin, White Masks – first published in 1952 – Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, clinical, literary and political analysis of the deep effects of racism and colonialism on the experiences, lives, minds and relationships of black people and people of colour. And also this book about the mindset or psychology of Racism. This book divided into seven chapters with conclusion. These seven chapters are ,

💠 The problem of Blackness :-

                         The book "Black Skin, White Masks" moving away from blackness as a problem perhaps the problem of the modern world towards the wider theory of  oppressed, colonialism, and revolutionary resistance to the reach of coloniality as a system. But that shift is unthinkable without Fanon’s early meditations on anti-Black racism.  The second and third chapters of Black Skin, White Masks theorize interracial sexuality, sexual desire, and the effects on racial identity. Fanon’s theorizations return to one and the same theme: interracial desire as a form of self-destruction in the desire to be white or to elevate one’s social, political, and cultural status in proximity to whiteness.

💠 Reference :-

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Tr. Richard Philcox, Grove Press, 2008.