Frantz Fanon

PostcolonialismMartinique1925
OriginMartinique
Era1925
SchoolPostcolonialism

About Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth analyzed the psychology and violence of colonization. Black Skin, White Masks dissected how racism enters the self. A psychiatrist from Martinique who worked in colonial Algeria. His case studies showed that torture corrodes torturers as well as victims. Died of leukemia at 36. His books became handbooks for liberation movements worldwide.