1. Prepared by;- Thakar Aneri R
Roll no:- 01
Paper no:- 11(Post colonial study
Guided by:- Dr Dilip Barad
M.A. Sem :- 3
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5. 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”
6.
Fanon: The So-Called Dependency
Complex of the Colonized - argues against
Mannoni’s view that people of colour have a
deep desire for white rule, that those who
oppose it do not have a secure sense of self
– that they have a chip on their shoulder.
From this chapter I came to understand that
the stereotypes of Happy Darkies, Uppity
Negroes and White Saviours all come from
the need of white people to feel that their
power in society is good and not racist.
Black skin white mask is not a dieses
7.
Fanon: The Lived Experience of the Black Man - always
black, never fully human. No matter how much
education you have or how well you act. Yet shouting
your blackness is a dead end too.
Example-Frantz Fanon wants to be a man. But in the
white world in which he lives his skin colour becomes
everything, more important than even his education and
achievements. While his neighbor or his cousin might
hate him for good reason, white people hate him without
even getting to know him. They are irrational
8. Why white people are so afraid of black
men:
Black men are seen as being way less
moral.
White men fear they will take white women
from them.
. More generally, black men are viewed as
bodies, which makes them seem like mindless, violent, sexual, animal beings. Add to
that all the bad meanings that the word
“black” had even before Europeans set foot
in Black Africa.
9. la
Frantz Fanon was not a big believer
of Adler and Hegel, but nonetheless he
used their ideas as a jumping off point to
understand the blacks from his home
island of Martinique.
Adler says that you understand
someone not through his words and actions
but through the end he aims to achieve.
Know that and all his thoughts and actions
fall into place – even if he is a madman's
