Frantz Fanon

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Life

Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in a middle-class family in the French colony of Matinique. He left for France in 1943 to fight with the Free French in WWII. After the war he remained in France to study medicine and psychiatry. Before leaving France he had allready published several analysis of effects of racism and colonization. This subject of research could be explained by looking at his perception of French society. Coming from a French colony, Fanon saw himself as a French citizen. Upon arriving in France he had to deal with his position as a black individual in a whitened society. This encounter quickly shaped his psychological heories about culture.

Work

Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove, 1967. Reprint of Peau noire, masques blancs. Paris, 1952

The Wretched of the Earth. New York, 1965. Reprint of Les damnes de la terre. Paris, 1961

References:

Frantz Fanon. Retrieved octobre 24, 2012, from http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Fanon.html