The Black Skin and White Mask

 

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 # About  Frantz Fanon #

               

           Frantz Fanon, in full Frantz Omar Fanon, (born July 20, 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique—died December 6, 1961, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.), West Indian psychoanalyst and social philosopher known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. His critiques influenced subsequent generations of thinkers and activists.

 The Black skin and White Masks seems to have distracted attention from all other aspects of his thinking about race. To be sure, Fanon himself is in part responsible for the relative silence on this subject insofar as he himself left no sustained meditation on race as such, but his caution was appropriate. He knew the danger of appearing to underwrite any of the dominant concepts of race that had been employed in the first half of the twentieth century.

According to Fred Moten, Fanon regulates imagination in Blackness by his willingness to merely envisage through his rubric of epidermalization, which is yet another form of enclosure.

        
 

   

Fanon insists, however, that the category “white” depends for its stability on its negation, “black.” Neither exists without the other, and both come into being at the moment of imperial conquest (see Orientalism). his book should not be taken as an accurate portrait of the oppression of black women under similar conditions. The work of feminists in postcolonial studies undercuts Fanon’s simplistic and unsympathetic portrait of the black woman’s complicity in colonization.

Black Skin, White Masks applies a historical critique on the complex ways in which identity, particularly Blackness, is constructed and produced. Fanon confronts complex formations of colonized psychic constructions of Blackness in the book.