Thinking Activity: Black Skin White Masks.

 

Thinking Activity: Black Skin White Masks.

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Here is my blog on thinking Activity Black Skin White Mask book by Frantz Fanon. 

           

Black Skin, White Masks is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from Martinique. The book is written in the style of auto-theory, in which Fanon shares 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.

“Black Skin, White Masks” is a book about the mindset or psychology of racism by Frantz Fanon, a Martinican psychiatrist and black, post-colonialist thinker. The book looks at what goes through the minds of blacks and whites under the conditions of white rule and the strange effects that has, especially on black people.

Fanon wrote his book in seven chapters. 

1 .Fanon: The Black Man and Language -

In this chapter fanon looking at Negros. Fanon from Algeria France colon. French is the main language of fanon. He can't English language. So he wrote with his own experience. We could engage with white men in different ways and with black people in different ways. Fanon says that he realised that black is good, nothing is wrong with that so Modernity brings advanced culture, transportation and many things.

2.  Fanon: The Woman of Colour and the White Man -

Frantz Fanon proposes to examine the relationship between the woman of color and the European (white) man. The novel begins by analyzing a novel, I Am a Martinican Woman. In the book, the protagonist wishes to marry a white man. She loves him "unconditionally" and treats him as her "lord." Her desires, however, are unfulfilled because she is herself black. She is rejected by white society. Marrying a white man is likely impossible for a black woman.

3. Fanon: The Man of Colour and the White Woman -

In thai chapter fanon says that the most crucial thing is the idea of devaluation of the selve. Desire is lack of something so desire is a modern thing of supplementary that we lack. Colonised desire or coloniser desire there is no difference. Desire is zey, white colonial desire is for rules. White men and black women's desires are not just body desires.

Fanon says .

 " The Neurotic structure of an individual. It simply elaboration formation reputation within Ego"

Desire can't function. It is fuel. Fantasy of black men for white women is unachievable,colour signifies control.

4. Fanon: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized -

In this chapter we have to understand the dependency of man . Colonised need comparison colonisers. Colonisers don't need colonisers. Colonialism is not simple, just go start administration people. Colonialism is a fantasy of desire,it's a play of desire. Colonialism captures the imagination of people's minds. 

Imagination happens in two ways.

1. Colonisation is benevolent people love the colonisation the colonisation is very liberal person

2. To the object of terror.

5. Fanon: The Lived Experience of the Black Man -

Fanon wants to talk about the subject of a racist society. Fanon, who is a black person, wants to communicate his experience to the reader directly. In this chapter Fanon runs through a great many instances of racism. 

Racism manifests in the racist language and fears of children but also the patronizing language and attitudes of the mother.

Fanon makes comparisons between antiblack racism and anti-Semitism.

Fanon says that anti-Semitism and antiblack racism were linked but distinct phenomena. In this chapter he makes a distinction between the internal and external "overdetermination."

6. Fanon: The Black Man and Psychopathology -

Fanon proposes that how the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler can be used to explain the "black man's vision of the world," that is, the black experience. Fanon makes a compelling case that myths about black sexuality are at the center of the fear of the black body, and the black man in particular. This is not surprising to hear from Fanon, because suppressed sexual urges are at the heart of Freudian psychoanalysis itself.

7. Fanon: The Black Man and Recognition -

The first part of this chapter begins with quotations from Alfred Adler's book The Neurotic Constitution. Alfred Adler was an Australian psychologist. Fanon wants to situate mental disorders in specific social contexts. He charges that it is all of Antillean society that is neurotic.

The end of the world" as used here means the end of white rule. Fanon has made the case that the colonizers shaped the world in their own image..

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