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Title: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, Charles Markmann, Constance Farrington ISBN: 0-8021-5084-5 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For those interested in the concepts behind racialism.
Comment: Written in 1952, Fanon's novel is a response to Mannoni's 'Prospero complex', which states that white colonizers have a symbiotic relationship to the races they colonize, and that this relationship is built upon a system of mutual dependence. The whites have a need to dominate, and the other races have a need to be dominated. Fanon passionately and accurately REJECTS this theory, saying that the only neurosis resides in the white male, and his innate fear of other races. Taking his discourse to the sports arena and the bedroom, Fanon argues that the white male possesses a sexual-performance anxiety toward other races, especially the African. He fears he will be outmatched on the field, and outlasted in bed, by the African. It is this fear that causes the xenophobic anxiety within the white male, and propels him to subdue and dominate the other races. Fanon argues that the Africans were doing pretty well before the colonizers came along, but now all worlds are forever changed. Although this book is an angry argument against white ideas of dominance, I find it to be largely accurate and an imperative read for anyone hoping to gain greater insight into the 'true' motivations behind racialism.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great read
Comment: Frantz Fanon's work is an excellent insight of how people of color throughout the world have been effected by colonization.
A must read for anyone trying to understand the basics about living in the western world as a person of color.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gift to humanity
Comment: Fanon's amazing book is one of the landmarks in modern thinking, as far as I am concerned. Fanon says he wants to expose the sickness in order for it to be cured. He exposes the sickness inflicted on Africans by the contact with the colonizing white West in a razor sharp accuracy and courage. Fanon is completely honest, sparing no criticism from the Africans nor the Europeans. He gets help from giant figures like Cesaire and Senghor, and creates an emotionally and intellectually charged masterpiece.
I learned from Fanon about the use of language as a colonialist tool, the terrible affect on African self esteem, the psychological turmoil that erupts as a result of the contact with white society.
It is clear the world is not the same today as it was in the 50's, but Fanon's book is just as relevant.
Quoting from Sartre talking about another book by Fanon: "Have the courage to read this book !".
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Title: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington ISBN: 0802150837 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon, Haakon Chevalier ISBN: 0802150276 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi ISBN: 0807003018 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire, Joan Pinkham, Robin D.G. Kelley, Aime Csaire ISBN: 1583670254 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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