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It is about being oneself with all the multiplicities. Black skin, white masks paperback september 10, 2008. It suffers from a good deal of youthful pretentiousness fanon had a mania for arbitrary citations, a rhapsodically muddled style, a bynow trite theses the black soul is a white mans. Find books like black skin, white masks from the worlds largest community of readers. Black skin, white masks is a 1952 book by frantz fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from. Comic strips race relations analysis media coverage race relations in mass media. In it fanon discusses the black mans experience in a white world. This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay. The book is written in the style of autotheory, which fanon shares his own experiences in addition to presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations. He is especially interested in the experience of black people from frenchcolonized islands in the caribbean, like himself, who have come to live in france themselves. Colonial identity black skin, white masks is primarily about antilleans black french citizens from what was, in fanons time, a french colony in the caribbean.
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