Frantz Fanon
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Life
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. 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 theories about culture. His viewpont alienated further from that of imperial France after the start of the Algerian War in 1954.
Work
In his work, Fanon deals with subjects as the categories 'white' and 'black'. Neither exists without the other. By focussing on this, Fanon analyses the French historically-bound cultural systems and charts the psychological oppression of black men.
Most important writings
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 october 24, 2012, from http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Fanon.html
SimonTjoonk 11:52, 25 October 2012 (CEST)
