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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
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4.5/5
Wonderful read. I especially liked the passages comparing black people and Jewish people in society. Fanon was so ahead of his time, apart from all the misogyny stuff which did spoil it all a bit for me.
Wonderful read. I especially liked the passages comparing black people and Jewish people in society. Fanon was so ahead of his time, apart from all the misogyny stuff which did spoil it all a bit for me.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Truly phenomenal (… fanon-menal🤣) Will definitely be rereading!
challenging
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Very interesting book about how Black people are made to want assimilation and whiteness.
The irony of the book is how deeply it relies on psychology and sources, which are themselves riddled with racism. This also leads to a lot of misogyny and homophobia.
The irony of the book is how deeply it relies on psychology and sources, which are themselves riddled with racism. This also leads to a lot of misogyny and homophobia.
The thing that really stuck with me was the freaky subconscious sex stuff LOL psychiatrists are strange people
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Having read Wretched of the Earth first, I wish I had started here. Both should be read together and back to back.
Fanon’s worldview follows a very logical evolution between the two books. Black Skin, White Masks is very openly against violence, and while his core theory that, and I’m abstracting this, you cannot reform colonized society- society as a whole needs to be deconstructed in order to completely escape colonialism and the effects of it; stays consistent between the two works, Wretched of the Earth seems like a more radical approach compared to this work.
Essential work in understanding afro-pessimism, and decolonial theory.
Fanon’s worldview follows a very logical evolution between the two books. Black Skin, White Masks is very openly against violence, and while his core theory that, and I’m abstracting this, you cannot reform colonized society- society as a whole needs to be deconstructed in order to completely escape colonialism and the effects of it; stays consistent between the two works, Wretched of the Earth seems like a more radical approach compared to this work.
Essential work in understanding afro-pessimism, and decolonial theory.