About this title: A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today. "[Fanon] demonstrates how ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780802150844ISBN:0802150845
Description: Very Good + Very Good Plus condition, no creases in spine, no slant, tight clean unmarked copy, 232 pages, translated from the French by Charles Lam Markmann. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994-01-07
ISBN-13:9780802150844ISBN:0802150845
Description: New in None as issued. jacket. New book, 1967 edition. We ship 6 days a week, generally within 24 hours; single CDs and DVDs upgraded to 1st class! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Date Published: 2000-10-27
ISBN-13:9780802150844ISBN:0802150845
Description: Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine in publisher's decorated wrappers Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
"there is no one like fanon. every time i read him i am astonished at the force of his prose, all that passion and understanding and brilliance, massed with complete concentration at the mind of the reader. there is no anger here, only total urgency."
"Excellent book. Some say his books are difficult to read but despite some of the medical/psychiatric termingologies he was always on point and what he writes is still relevant in today's world. He is a fantastic writer whose analogies and stories resonant with the 21st century reader.
Surprisingly I read Black Skin White Masks in two days. I had heard that this was a difficult book to read and understand but I did not have any trouble with it. Mr. Fanon did use plenty of medical terminologies however they could be understood within the context of the sentence. I did wish that Mr. Fanon had gone more into why certain African Americans were Expatriates in Paris during the 1920s to the 1950s. If France was so racist and biased as he state in his book why would Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker choose to live there. I also wished he had included his thoughts on The Harlem Renaissance and writer Zora Neale Hurston.
This is and was a great book. Even though he discussed the effects of racism in regards to his native land of Martinique we Mr. Fanon has to say still resounds in today's so-called PC world.
I do wish he had lived long enough to see Barack Obama elected President of the United States. I would have loved to hear his take on that. The only aspect I found missing from this book is his opinion on Black American ex-patriots living in France. James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Josephine Baker.... Did these African-Americans living in Paris not realize the effect of colonolism on all Africans in the Diaspora?, or were they treated as "Honorary Whites" in France. I truly wish Frantz Fanon had explored that entire subject."
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