karenaparker 's review for:

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

3.0

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I'll be honest: I skimmed the later half of the book, foregoing huge chunks of quoted text and footnotes to try and get to the meat and potatoes of things. Even then, I don't think this book is quite for me. Any essays written in the 1950s or before that have a writing style that I can't quite sift through, and on some level, I've lived through the experiences that Fanon writes about.

Don't get me wrong, though. When he says, "wherever he goes, a black man remains a black man," I felt that. I know what it's like to never feel at home, in the US or abroad. Fanon has powerful gems of wisdom sprinkled throughout that I'll probably quote from.

But, it's just too dense for my taste.