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Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon; translated by Charles Lam Markmann.

By: Language: English, French Series: Pluto classicPublisher: London : Pluto, 1986Description: xxvi, 232 pages ; 22cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745300359
Uniform titles:
  • Peau noire, masques blancs. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition. A. The black man and Adler ; B. The black man and Hegel -- By way of conclusion.
Summary: A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 305.8 FAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12042

Originally published: New York : Grove, 1967 ; London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.

Foreword -- Introduction -- The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition. A. The black man and Adler ; B. The black man and Hegel -- By way of conclusion.

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

Translation of the French: Peau noire, masques blancs.