Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780802143006
• eBook ISBN: 9780802197603
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Critical Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

The new translation of the classic work by the author of Wretched of the Earth: "A strange, haunting mélange of analysis [and] revolutionary manifesto" ( Newsweek).
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. This new translation by Richard Philcox makes Fanon's masterwork accessible to a new generation of readers. It also includes a foreword by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter One The Black Man and Language
• Chapter Two The Woman of Color and The White Man
• Chapter Three The Man of Color and the White Woman
• Chapter Four The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized
• Chapter Five The Lived Experience of the Black Man
• Chapter Six The Black Man and Psychopathology
• Chapter Seven The Black Man and Recognition
• Chapter Eight By Way of Conclusion
• Footnotes