Frantz Fanon

1925–1961, Martinique / Algeria

Martiniquais-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher. Analyzed the psychological effects of colonialism and racism on the subjectivity of the oppressed.

Books

  • Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

    Fanon analyzes how colonialism creates a psychopathology in the colonized: alienation, internalization of racism, and depersonalization of the Black subject.