Chapter One, two and three from "Black Skin white mask"

Introduction

• He was born in 20 July 1925.

• He was died on 6 December 1961.

• Published in English1967

• Black skin white mask is a sociological study of the psychology of racism and the dehumanization inherent to colonial domination.

Frantz Fanon, a Martinique psychiatrist and black, post-colonialist thinker.

It is written for white French psychiatrists.

Postcolonialism in Black Skin White Mask

Superior - inferior

race and states of mind

Psychological dimension of race

colour hegemony over the other

Divided in to the 8 Parts:

1 The Black man and Language.’

2.The Woman of color and the ‘Whiteman’.

3. The man of color and the white woman.

4.The so-called Dependency Complex of the Colonized

5.The Lived Experience of the Black Skin.

6.The Black man and the Psychopathology.

7.The Black Man and Recognition.

8.Way of Conclusion.:

Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language

• Language construct the idea of Civilized or uncivilized.

• if you do not learn the white man’s language perfectly, you are unintelligent. Yet if you do learn it perfectly, you have washed your brain in their universe of racist ideas.

Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language

Martinique ( Caribbean) people didn’t speak French they spoke in Creole

The Middle class tries to not to speak at all.Colonized- under French rule.White people in French talk down to you if you black. Inferior vs. SuperiorScumbags trying to keep blacks in their place.Martinique people to speak French to prove they are equal.Racism

French puts black students in a blind,

The woman of Colour and and white Man (Chapter 2)

• The idea of blackness• The mind set of people

are like this “I loved him because he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin”

• The mulato • Mulato is a kind of a race

which is not black and white.

The woman of Colour and and white Man (Chapter 2)

FANNON

I want to be recognize not as black, but as white

Jean Veneuse To France from Caribbean black student sea of white

He grows up French and falls in love with a white woman

Revenge from European Separate himself from race raceless

The man of colour and the white Woman (chepter-3)

• The concept of genuine negroes

• Concept of decolonize of mind

• “ these men want to be white too – or at least prove they are equal to whites”

The man of colour and the white Woman(chepter-3)

Internalized racism Woman just love their colour Not love but deal with their own hang ups about race

Inferior and superior

Example of three women

Mayotte Nini dedee

Slip back among the nigger able

Black Skin White Masks, Fanon argued that colonialism dehumanized the native.

This process was thorough that the black man can see himself

only as the black (mirror) image of the white man.

The white man is the master, and represents an object that is to be feared and desired.

The black therefore tries to be more like the (desirable) white man/master. He puts on 'white mask'.

Conclusion