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There is plenty to critique in this book, and I think the urge to critique is heightened by the author's ubiquity. For one, Fanon is deeply misogynist and homophobic. He writes that it is in refusing to acknowledge the black man that the white man strips him of his subjectivity, and yet he writes na Leggi tutto

Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak. “The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike beha

I appreciate this book and the way it turned the mirror back on me. It made me question certain practices I have in the context of my "Blackness" and how I've been conditioned to assimilate to certain European cultural practices that I can never truly be a part of by de facto. This book is a must re Leggi tutto

This book is a must-read for any young person of colour who has found himself existentially agitated by, what one might call, his "condition". I don't mean that in a negative, medical sense; I mean it as in any condition, like the human condition. It's simply false to imply that it means nothing to

This book was a soul-searing confrontation, and brought me completely to tears, but it was one of the single most healing books I’ve ever read. Fanon is the black man with the white mask, and his sheer exasperation, frustration, and exhaustion reecho on every page. “The crippled veteran of the Pacifi Leggi tutto

Honestly, I don’t know what’s pushing me to understand — okay, that’s a lie... hmm.. I am being pushed towards trying to understand the man. The black man. Myself and how I fit into that dynamic. Others. Older folks. Younger folks. Folks my age. Partners. Socialization. Conditioning of folks. Intern Leggi tutto

fanon takes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and his incredible mind and goes amazing places; evades being bogged down by psychoanalytic dogma, while using its concepts to tease out a living constellation of power relations and problems of race and representation. so apt and agile and fascinating that Leggi tutto

As a black man, reading Fanon has had a profound, almost revolutionary impact on me. When I think about the past and how things were and how far we have come I shed tears of remorse for those of whom have fallen victim, been destroyed, been hated, been cast out, been taught to self hate,under the co Leggi tutto