Black Skin, White MasksGrove Press, 1967 - 232 pages 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 |
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Africa aggression Aimé Césaire alienation anti-Semitism Antillean Antilles Negro attitude become behave behavior Br'er Rabbit called child civilization collective unconscious colonial color conflict consciousness culture dance dialect dream Europe European existence eyes face fact father feeling Fort-de-France France French Guex Hegel human Ibid individual italics-F.F. Jean Veneuse Jean-Paul Sartre language Léopold Senghor live longer Malagasy Mannoni Martinican Martinique master Mayotte Capécia Michel Cournot Michel Leiris mulatto myth native negritude Negro neurosis neurotic never nigger noire object once Paris patient possible Présence Africaine problem psychic psychological question race racial reality recognized René Maran savage schema Senegalese sense sexual simply skin slave society soul speak structure talk tell thing tion told tom-tom Translator's note turn Uncle Remus understand white woman white world women word young