Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

• Other Authors Charles Lam Markmann (Translator), Paul Gilroy (Introduction)
• Title

  Black Skin, White Masks

• Date 2008 [1952]
• ISBN 0802143008
• Publisher New York : Grove Press
• Description xvii, 206 p.; 21 cm
• Language English (translated from French)
• Collections BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. 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 from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. (Grove Atlantic)

• Tags Bam2016, Race, Black Studies, Colonialism, Blackness, Political science