Pele Negra, Mascaras Brancas

Paperback, 191 pages

Portuguese language

Published by EDUFBA.

ISBN:
978-85-232-0483-9
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4 stars (1 review)

Neste livro, Fanon examina a negação do racismo contra o negro na França. É um clássico do pensamento sobre a diáspora africana, sobre a descolonização, a arquitetura psicológica, a teoria das ciências, a filosofia e a literatura caribenha. Analisa o axioma que causou grande turbulência nas décadas de 1960 e 1970: como a ideologia que ignora a cor pode apoiar o racismo que nega. Sua primeira edição, em português, foi publicada em 1963.

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Psychology of the colonized

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Fanon takes a lot from psychoanalysis in his description of the psychological effects of colonialism. He describes the subjectivity of the oppressed who are led to identify with their oppressor and are alienated from themselves. He replies to a lot of other texts, quotes a lot of black poets. He replies to Sartre, it made me want to read Sartre's "question juive". He also replies to some authors that are irrelevant nowadays, these parts are a little boring because he kinda assumes that the reader has read them. The parts about white women wanting to be raped, or about white racists being repressed homosexuals, sound pretty bad nowadays. All in all, he is at his most astute when describing the condition of the colonized (which, luckily, is most of the book). He gets a little weird and bad when psychoanalyzing the colonizers. Some passages are really well written and highly …