1. Black skin White Mask: Fact Of
Blackness
Name:- Baraiya Kailash P.
Roll No:- 10
Batch:- 2016 - 2018
Enrollment No:-
Email id:-kailashbaraiya21@gmail.com
Paper No:-11,The Post colonial Literature Literature
Topic:-Black skin White Mask: Fact Of Blackness
Submitted To:- Department of English
2. About Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon born on 20th
July, 1925 at Martinique and
died on 6th December 1961.
He was Afro-Caribbean
psychiatrist, philosopher and
the French writer. Whose works
are influential in the field of post-
colonial studies and Marxism.
3. About Black skin White Mask
Black Skin White Mask is a
sociological study of racism and
dehumanization inherent to
colonial domination.
Fanon describes that Black
people experience in the whit
world.
“for the black man there is only one destiny and
it is white”.
-Frantz Fanon
4. Fact of Blackness
The Fact of Blackness” is Fanon’
celebrated essay describing the
consciousness of “black” subject
in a world of “white Power”.
Fanon’s experiences as a black man analyzed in “the
Fact of Blackness’ have proved to be influential among
black intellectuals in the world. His work has also drawn
an ambivalent relationship between black feminist and
fanon.
5. Continue…
Fanon Says; Blackness is a constructive identity
that exist for the purpose of distinguishing between
black and white.
Discourse(blackness as a Negativity)
They are forced to wear uniform of blackness.
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Blackness is linked with negativity by whites.
Fanon Says; all those negativity and attached
discourse is the fact of Blackness.
Fanon and all nigro’s are discarded on the basis
of color prejudices.
Fanon knows and accept short comings of his
own race.
7. Lived experience of the Black Man
In this chapter Fanon argues about
his own fact of Blackness and his struggle.
He endured such the psychologically
alientaly effects of colonialism and racism.
Fanon was a Martinican Psychiatrist
but in the white society, He is seen
not as Dr. Fanon but as Black man”.
In this racist society, Fanon argues,
Black people “experience being through others.
“Dirty nigger!” or simply, “look, a Negro!”
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The condition of Black people.
Highly educated
Spiritual
Knowledgeable
Color of skin giving feeling of embarrassment
Pathetic condition of blacks.
9. Fact of Blackness: quotations
Fanon says, the philosopher professor told me:
“Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews,
pay attention, because he is talking about you.”
An anti- Semite is inevitably anti- negro”.
Bigger Thomas: “all those white men in a group,
guns in their hands, can not be wrong. I am guilty,
I do not know of what, but I know that I am not
good”.
10. Conclusion
Fanon’s life was a tragedy, there
was no outlet, this essay is his catharsis.
He is fed up, he wants change
in their identity.
Fanon Wants equality.
