A review by cgbeck
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

5.0

Though many ideas regarding gender have not aged well, there’s enough genius, particularly the distinctive combination of poetry, psychology and philosophy, in the rest of the book to view the shortcomings through the lens of time and place. I found the end of the book especially powerful: “It is through self-conscious and renunciation, though a permanent tension of his freedom, that a man can create his ideal continues of existence for a human world... O my body, always make me a man who questions!”