Black Skin, White Masks
Title: Black Skin, White Masks
Author: Frantz Fanon
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Year: 2008 (originally published 1952)
ISBN-13: 9780802143006
Black Skin, White Masks applies a historical critique on the complex ways in which identity, particularly Blackness, is constructed and produced. Fanon confronts complex formations of colonized psychic constructions of Blackness. The book is written in the style of autoethnography, with Fanon sharing his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche.
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