Black Skin, White Masks

Name: Black Skin, White Masks
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Frantz Fanon
ISBN: 9781705274545

Author: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/01/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Social Science, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies

Synopsis

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of listeners.

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.

About Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique and studied medicine in France, specializing in psychiatry. Sent to a hospital in Algeria, he found his sympathies turning toward the Algerian Nationalist Movement, which he later joined. He is considered one of the most important theorists of the African struggle for independence and of the psychology of race.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dusty

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......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

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......more

Goodreads review by Litsplaining

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......more

Goodreads review by Odi

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......more