SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. Du Bois

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Aime cesare (teacher) - negritude movement fought in the algerian war of independence against french. Necessary to rise up and fight to gain recognition for his race. He assumes he is equal, respectable member of society, educated (doctor), middle class, yet in france he realizes he is not equal due to his identity (race) race was the barrier to recognition in fanon"s eyes. As part of france, martinique (east caribbean) is part of the eu, currency = euro. Black skin white masks (bswm) originally an essay for the dis-alienation of blacks . His family is part of the black bourgeoisie of martinique. Fanon"s personal experience as a black intellectual in a white racist world - the colonizer/ colonized relationship. Members of this social stratum tended to strive for assimilation, the identification, with white french culture replicate the white french culture, and move away from their local culture.