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Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th May '17

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Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.

Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.

With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' -- Angela Davis
'A haunting melange of existential analysis, revolutionary manifesto, metaphysics, prose, poetry and literary criticism' -- Newsweek
'Fanon's analysis of crippled colonial mentalities may be even more salient now than it was then' -- New Statesman
'One feels a brilliant, vivid mind walking the thin line that separates outrage from despair' -- New York Times

ISBN: 9780745399560

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272 pages

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