Dark skin, white mask

Author: (French) Frantz Fanon (Fanon/F.) / Wan Bing
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: It is Fanon, not that medical expert or intellectual, who shows how the issue of race and the problem of skin color are subtly linked with a series of words and images, making us unable to put down this book. – The New York Times Book Review
A complex and original work that remains crucial in all current discussions about the nature of racism. – Literary Review
The "French" in the French overseas departments, especially the "Antilleans," are French citizens in law, yet they despise the Black people of French Africa. As colored individuals, they harbor an inner sense of inferiority when facing whites. Subconsciously, they acknowledge the superiority of whites and measure everything by white values. This book delves into their spiritual confusion and the resulting psychological suffering, exposing the wounds left by long-term colonial rule on the minds of colored people who are already French citizens.