One of the most radical and influential essays on race and racism now available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique and studied medicine in France, specializing in psychiatry. Sent to a hospital in Algeria, he found his sympathies turning towards the Algerian Nationalist Movement, which he later joined. He is considered one of the most important theorists of the psychology of race and his books Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have been extremely influential.
This century's most compelling theorist of racism and
colonialism
*Angela Davis*
Fanon is our contemporary because when he psychoanalysed the way
the French coloniser looked at Arabs, he is also describing the way
the police looked at Stephen Lawrence. In clear language, in words
that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon
showed us the internal theatre of racism, and how some of us have
been staged in its psychodrama
*Independent*
A brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that
separates effective outrage from despair. . . He demonstrates how
insidiously the problem of race, of color, connects with a whole
range of words and images. . . It is Fanon the man, rather than the
medical specialist or intellectual, who makes the book so hard to
put down
*New York Times Book Review*
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