Black Skin, White Masks

A devastating account of the feelings of inadequacy experienced by previously colonised people in a white world.

The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon ! or too late. First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.

orewords by Homi Bhabha and Ziauddin SardarIntroductionThe Negro &
LanguageThe Woman of Color &
the White ManThe Man of Color &
the White WomanThe So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonised PeoplesThe Fact of BlacknessThe Negro &
PsychopathologyThe Negro &
RecognitionBy Way of Conclusion