This document summarizes chapters 5 and 7 from Frantz Fanon's book Black Skin White Mask. Chapter 5 discusses Fanon's lived experience as a Black man in a white society, where he felt inferior and saw only one destiny: to be white. Chapter 7 analyzes the psychology of Antillean Negroes and their desire for recognition, applying Adler's personality theory and Hegel's master-slave dialectic to understand their inferiority complexes under colonialism. The document concludes that Fanon described the marginalization of Black people by the white colonizer world through discussing his own struggles with racism and dehumanization.
Fanon's Analysis of Black Identity and Colonialism in Chapters 5 and 7
1. Topic: Black Skin White Mask
chapters 5 and 7
Name: Jinal B. Parmar
Roll no:11
Paper no: 11 Post-Colonial studies
M. A. Semester: 3
Year: 2014-15
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Submitted to: Department of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
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University Dt: 3/10/2014
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4. Black Skin White Mask
Introduction:
• BSWM is a sociological study of the
psychology of racism and
dehumanization inherent to colonial
domination
• Fanon describes that Black people
experience in the White world
• Fanon talks about, self-perception of
the Black Subject who has lost his native
cultural origin, and embraced the culture
of the Mother Country
• He also talks about the inferiority
complex in the mind of the Black subject
5. “For the black man there
is only one destiny. And it
is white”
-Frantz Fanon
“However painful it may be
for me to accept this
conclusion, I am obliged to
state it: for the black man
there is only one destiny.
And it is white”
-Frantz Fanon
6. Black Skin White Mask
Chapter-5
“The 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!”
7. Continue….
• Fanon’s experience as Black man in
the white society feels inferiority and
says “Always a Negro, never a man”
• Fanon describe as a “real dialect
between my body and the world”
• Fanon expresses his feeling of
inferiority and says , “Sin is Black as
Virtue is White”
• In the White world he himself
considered as he is Wretch
8.
9. “The Black Man
and
Recognition”
Section A
The Negro
and Adler
“The Black Man
and
Recognition”
Section B
The Negro
and Hegel
Chapter-7
“The Black Man and Recognition”
10. Section-A
“The Negro and Adler”
• In this section fanon applies Adler’s
personality theory to the ‘Antillean Negro’
• How Antillean Negro act towards each
other
• Fanon says, that “The question is always
whether he is less intelligent than I, blacker
than I, less respectable than I”
• The “question of value” that plagues the
neurotic Antillean Negro is historically
constructed and has arisen out of
colonialism.
11. Continue….
• Fanon talks about the role colonial
education
• “It is because the Negro belongs to
an “inferior” race that he seeks to be
like the superior race”
• The pattern of the white man
12. Section –B
“The Negro and the Hegel”
• In the second section Fanon applies
Hegel’s Master and Slave dialectic
• The ‘Hegelian dialectic’ offers,
Fanon argues, an explanation of
what distinguishes “human reality”
from “natural reality”
• “Man is human only to the extent
to which he tries to impose his
existence on another man in order to
be recognized by him”
13. Continue….
• Black men fight for an equal place in
society
• The White man considers Black men
as “machine-animal-men”
• Fanon says, “There is always
resentment in a reaction”
• Nietzsche points out that in the latter
Fanon reminds us there is always a
great deal of “resentment”
14. Continue…..
• The unequal power relations
between the slave and the Master
means that even if the Master had
to confer upon the slave its
recognition the power balance
would not have shifted
• Fanon says that “it is in the
degree to which I go beyond my
own immediate being that I
apprehend the existence of the
other as a natural and more than
natural reality”
15. Conclusion
White men
Negro
Inferior
Slave
Superior
Master
• In these both chapters
Fanons describe the
marginalization of Black people
and colonizer White world
• In this Book BSWM Fanon
talks about his own experience
and struggle as a Black man
