SOCIOL 2LL3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Frantz Fanon, Anti-Imperialism, Inferiority Complex
2 Jan 2019
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Frantz fanon: analysis in black skin, white masks. Describes the psychological impact of colonialism on black colonial subjects: domination. Argued that due to the domination by a colonial culture, black people in african colonies developed negative self-perceptions. Not simply political domination, but colonization goes beyond to involve cultural and psychological domination. Argued that black colonial subjects developed a fracture of consciousness between a dark and a light side : resistance. Tried to identify forms of resistance to domination and its psychological effects on black colonial subjects. Focuses on the role of the negritude movement a critical response to colonialism and an attempt to raise black consciousness. Emerged opposed to the qualities of white capitalist civilization in relation to african civilization (communalism, anti-individualism, etc. ) A way to resist the domination (the system) and a way to help those colonized black people feel better about themselves and their background/heritage/values: analysis in the wretched of the earth.
