Thinking Activity: Black Skin White Masks

 Hello Readers,

The person who is black..? so what? but in this recent era no one wants to understand this thing or a difference between this black and white. Because we have the greatest skill which is JUDGEMENT . So, people always Frightened by that and they are not going to do this things again and they Demotivated more. Related  this RACISM toady we are going to Discuses a novel BLACK SKIN WHITE MASK. 

Task Given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir but the unit was deal by Balaji Ranganathan sir our expert guest. so let's Through some light on this. BLACK SKIN WHITE MASKS 


 There is a new English translation of Black Skin, White Masks since in this first book, Frantz Fanon himself believed that the fight against psychology of racism. Fanon wrote his first book, an analysis of the psychological effects of colonial people identified as black .He use psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical theory of explain the feelings of dependency. He speaks of the divided self perception of the black subject. The book looks at what goes through the minds of Blacks and the strange impacts that has, especially on the black people.

The book started out as his doctoral thesis that he wrote to get his degree in psychiatry. So it is written for white French psychiatrists and speaks mainly about Martinique and France in the early 1950s.It is well worth reading since his understanding of white French racism in the early 1950s and also helps us our to understand white American racism in the 2010s.

Black Skin White Mask 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.



Black Skin, White Masks is certainly an amazing engagement with the fate of the black individual in society. The book deals with various questions and dilemmas faced by all humans. Its power lies in the fact that it remains surprisingly optimistic in spite of its serious subject matter. Fanon recognizes the problems faced by the former colonised and is quite aware of the psychologically draining position that he/she occupies. Yet, he focuses his attention on the debunking of whiteness as the epitome of being. He seeks to “work out new concepts” (Fanon, 1961, 255) and remains optimistic that this can indeed be done.

Conclusion :-


Thus, black skin and white Mask is remain Important work to give voice to the problems of racial discrimination to black people. It attacks the notion white superiority. Black people   have desire  to became white. Because being white is means superior. So they have desire to became white. And even Mulatto, mixed race people finds problem in matching with either white or black people. 

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