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Frantz Omar Fanon's Black Skin

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Frantz Omar Fanon was born on 20th July 1925 at Martinique, and he was died in 6th December 1961- Mary-land (U.S). He was an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, and the French writer, his works are prominent in the study of post-colonial studies and Marxism. In this book Black skin, white mask is a "sociological study of the psychology of racism and dehumanization inherent to colonial domination." Fanon describes that the black people experience in the white world, and in partly he also mentions his personal experiences of life in French Caribbean. Fanon explored in his book about the nature of colonialism and racism, and the psychological damage they caused in colonial peoples and in the colonizer.
Fanon begins Black skin, White Masks with the basic factor in language for black people is that speaking is absolute to exist for other. The language of colonizer is superior that the language of the colonized people. Their language was as inferior. Colonizers language was recognized as an intelligent language, language of power. The writers mention a theory that "Negros are thought to be evolving from monkey into man."
Consequently, in France, Negros who lived all their life in the countryside is treated as a demigod and those coming from the city are deified. On the other hand, the black man evolved in France for a while obtains radical …show more content…

He discharges ideas by other psychiatrists that would solve the neurosis of an individual Black man by asking him to adjust his expectations and face reality. Instead, he wants social solutions that transform the racist society that produced conditions of inequality, to begin with. Black people need to be stimulated to transform the society by challenging individuals from white people, declaring freedom, and building a future freed from the suppression of the

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