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Black Skin, White Masks

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Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
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Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the Black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors, it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker.

©2021 Frantz Fanon (P)2021 Penguin Audio Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Politics & Government Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Racism & Discrimination Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Sociology Colonial Period

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Critic reviews

"This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism." (Angela Davis)

"Fanon is our contemporary.... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism." (Deborah Levy)

"So hard to put down...a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair." (The New York Times Book Review)
All stars
Most relevant
A piece for both sides of the streets, meet at the cross roads
To set minds free

4wdnup

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As a white man, I cannot possible understand what it is like to be black. However, Frantz Fanon
through this book, does give a glimps into the culture that has created the racial issues and problems that we are still struggling with today.
Clearly and well read by Theo Solomon, I look forward reading more of Fanons work.

An Account On Being Black, In A White World.

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Perfect tells what it's like being black in the empire that is western society.
Very eloquent portraying the paradoxical nature of trying to belong in a land not of your kin.

Perfect description of what it's like being black.

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This book was recommended to me and I must say it honestly opened my eyes but more importantly my mind further on what the mission is for all of us regardless of colour, creed religion and whatever.... to free man from man and create a just world for all. Thank you Frantz Fanon a guy from the future 😊

Wow just wow!

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This book is a real favourite of mine.

I commute over a 100 miles to university and have to use high speed trains. I needed to quote the text urgently and happened upon this as way of trying to combat the motion sickness when travelling in the dark.

I’ve read the book 4 times and this was by far the most enjoyable experience of it. Theo’s timing, ability to engage with the text, pick out the nuances and bring out the satire in the way the author intended was phenomenal.

May you narrate many many more!

If I had to listen to one audiobook on loop for the rest of my days, this would be it.

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Let's repeat the final prayer

“I my body, make of me always a “human” who questions!”

The fight is the only solution.

Amazing book

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Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks' is a brilliant and unapologetic exploration of the psychological challenges faced by black people in a predominantly white world. The book is thought-provoking and balanced, offering a transformational and empowering perspective that gives voice to the modern black man's confusion about his essence. It articulately addresses the struggle to free oneself from the mental shackles imposed by a history of subjugation. Fanon's incisive analysis of language, identity, and the legacy of colonialism is as relevant today as it was at the time of its writing. This book is not just a read; it's an awakening to the complexities of black identity and a call to psychological liberation.

Brilliant

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