Monday, February 22, 2016

A Critical Analysis of ‘Black Skin White Masks’ By Frantz Fanon

            
              

Introduction
             Frank Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 or died on 6 December. Fanon wrote Black skin white mask book an analysis of the psychological effects of colonial people identified as black. Black skin white mask is a sociological study of the psychology of racism and dehumanization inherent to colonial domination. The black man wants to be a white man. The white man slaves to be reach a human level. Fanon describes that Black people experience in the White world. The white people hate the black people, they suffer a lot. Black skin, White Mask’ - This book divided in many chapters. Each chapter has its own importance.



”The Black Man and Language “
                  
                   
             This chapter deals with the language of white people. The Language of White people is in center and Language of Black people is in periphery. Black people have to learn the language of White people. That if a black person does not learn the white man’s language perfectly, he is unintelligent.

The Women of color and the Whiteman
          
             The effect of white people also touched to the society. Black Woman also wished the White Skin which White woman has. How desire of “Whiteness” is more in the Black woman. Because of that many “Fairness cream” and their industries grow faster and faster.
             The colonized women look down on their own. Race and deep down want to be white. In “The Bluest Eye “of “Toni Morrison” we find a black girls desire fun the blue eyes of white men and woman.


The Man of the Color and the White  Women

             A white female just because he was raised around whites so he seemed less black. They go with them not out of love but to deal with their own race. Men want to be white too-or at least prove they are equal to whites. Here a black man wants to join white women.  Prejudices that make him not want to join a white man’s world. Whites represent wealth, beauty, intelligence and virtue. White people have rules over Black people and they have shaped that idea that whiteness is symbol of Goodness.

The So-called Dependency Complex of the colonized peoples
              The writer argues against Fanon’s view that people of color have a deep desire for white rule, that those who oppose it to do not have a secure sense of self that they have a chip on their shoulder. That people of color have a deep desire for white rule, that those who oppose it to do not have a secure sense of self that they have a chip on their shoulder. And White Saviors all come from the need of white people to feel that their power in society is good and not racist.

The lives experience of the Blackman
        Chapter-5 Fanon’s works influenced movement of the Palestinian, African- American and others.  Fanon argues about Blackness and his struggle endured such the psychologically alimental effects of colonialism. “Black skin or white Mask “is book about the mindset of racism. Fanon expresses his feeling of inferiority and says, “Sin is Black as Virtue is White”

  “Dirty nigger!” Or simply, “Look, a Negro!”


The Blackman and Psychopathology
              Black men are viewed as a body which makes them seem like mindless, violent sexual, animal beings. Bad meanings that the word “Black. Part it has to do with white men’s repressed homosexuality and their strange hang-ups about black men’s penises.

The Negro and Recognition
       Last chapter was divided into 2 sections, The negro Adler” or “The negro and the Hegel” 
 
Section-“The Negro Adler”
                                                                      
  Adler was understand someone not through his words and action. Fanon applies Adler’s personality theory to the ‘Antillean Negro’
 Different styles of white rule shaped black people in America.

 Section B- “The Negro and the Hegel”
                                                   
 Hegel used their idea as a jumping off point to understand the black from island Martinique. The ‘Hegelian dialectic’ offers Fanon argues an explanation of what distinguishes “human reality” from “natural reality".


Way of conclusion    
       The escaping the prison of one’s past and one’s race. Fanon throughout the book deals with the inner struggle of black when they were colony ‘the black man and language’ deals with language. They want not only to turn white but also to avoid slipping back.
             Frantz work present hybridists, syncretistic, creolizing, national and religious peculiarity, abrogation, appropriation. The Black people’s experience in the white world.
Blacks were born with original sin, whites were born pure. Negro is the universalizing himself.

“Oh my body, make me always man who questions….”
    

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