1) The document is a student paper analyzing chapters 2 and 3 of Frantz Fanon's book Black Skin, White Masks. 2) In chapter 2, Fanon argues that colonialism led black women in Martinique to develop a "dependency complex" and preference for white men over black men. 3) Chapter 3 discusses how black men were also influenced by white culture and rules, believing themselves to be inferior to white people and desiring white women.

1. NAME : PANDYA MEHAL JITENDRABHAI
ROLL NO :13
SEM: 3
ENROLLMENT NO : 2069108420200029
SUBJECT : Post colonial Literature
TOPIC : Black Skin White Masks Depression in African community
DATE :3/12/2020
BEACH -22019-2021
E-MAIL ID -MEHALPANDYA252@GMAIL.COM
SUBMITTED TO – DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
M. K. BHAVANAGAR UNIVERSITY

2. “There is but
one destiny for
the black man.
And it is white.”
Franz Fanon

3. Why the Depression in African Community?
Depression (major depressive
disorder) is a common and serious
medical illness that negatively affects
how you feel, the way you think and
how you act. Fortunately, it is also
treatable. Depression causes feelings
of sadness and/or a loss of interest in
activities you once enjoyed. It can
lead to a variety of emotional and
physical problems.
Racism
Desire
Colonial

4. Chapter 1: The Black Man and Language
Chapter 2 : The Women of Colour and The White Man
Chapter 3 : The Man of Colour and The White Man
Chapter 4 : The So-called Dependency Complex of The Colonized
Chapter 5 : The Fact of Blackness
Chapter 6 : The Black Man and Psychopathology
Chapter 7 : The Black Man and Recognition
Chapter 8 : By Way of Conclusion

5. Chapter 2 : The Women of Colour and The White Man
In This Chapter we can see that black women want to marry with
white man because they want value in society they also want to be
recognise not as a black but as a white the effect of white people also
touch to the society which we can see here black women also wish to
white skin which white woman has how Desire of whiteness is more in
the black women because of that many fairness cream and their Industries
grow faster and faster.
Ex : we can take the example of the bluest eyes which is the
written by Toni Morrison we find black girl Desire phone the
blue eyes of white men and women.

6. In the second chapter of Black Skin, White Masks “The Women
of color and the white man” The Women of color and the white
man” Frantz Fanon makes some assertions about black
Martiniquais women that garnered him the criticism of some
feminist theorists as a misogynist, and as promoting a perverse
(anti-miscegenational) form of black nationalism. Fanon’s rapport
with his subject is that of a psychiatrist attempting to understand
the effects of colonialism and racism on the colonized subject’s
psyche: that is, the internalization of racism and the development
of a “dependency complex.” Among black Martiniquais women,
Fanon argues, this dependency complex is evidenced, among
other places, in their expressed xenocentrism or, as the
phenomenon is most commonly referred to in Hispanic America,
malinchismo: that is, a preference for white sexual partners, and a
distaste for black men.

7. Chapter 3 : The Man of Colour and the White women
Here in this chapter we can see the paradox of chapter 2
there are women who want to be ameri with white men but in this
chapter the man of colour black I want white women because they
also influence under the white culture and their rule.
white represent weld beauty Intelligence and virtue but the
black people how kind of thinking that they are inferior than white
people.

8. Chapter 4 : The So-called Dependency Complex of
The Colonized
In this chapter phonons view that people of colour have a deep
desire for right white rules that those who opposite to do not have a
secure sense of self that they have a cheap on their shoulder.
In this chapter we come to understand that the stereotypes of
happy Darkies, Uppity Negroes and white Savior all come from the need
of white people to feel that their power in society is good and not resist

9. Much of the work on Black people in
psychology during the 18th and 19thcenturies
was conducted by European theorists who
engaged in race comparative studies, often
referred to as anthropometry (Guthrie, 2004a).
Anthropometry is a term used to describe a
classification system that was based on the
categorization of certain physical attributes
held by a particular group or groups of people
(i.e., skin color, hair texture, brain skull
capacity, lip size, etc). The term represented
an early attempt by Western society to develop
models for differentiating between African
descendants and Whites
Baldwin ‘S Afrocentric model

10. Fairness cream

11. Fairness cream

12. Why they want white skin ?
What they really want ?
Power InferioritySuperiority Freedom
The quest to be white is also a quest to lose one’s self

13. Conclusion
We come to know that which kind of little to big things can give depression,
anxiety, stress to person.Human always in quest of something and never live in happy
way . Human will never satisfied with things and it will harm them.
Mannoni and Adler say, according to Fanon, is that a Black person’s feeling of
inferiority or any related neurosis is an individual problem that can be corrected by
adjusting an individual’s expectations or desires. Fanon disagrees and says that we
must adjust the social situation that creates these desires and the impossibility of
realizing them.
“ we must change the world rather than the individual.”
- Fanon

14. Work citation
Baldwin, Joseph A. “African Self-Consciousness and the Mental Health of African-
Americans.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1984, pp. 177–194. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/2784007. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.
Bergner, Gwen. “Who Is That Masked Woman? Or, the Role of Gender in Fanon's
Black Skin, White Masks.” PMLA, vol. 110, no. 1, 1995, pp. 75–88. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/463196. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.
Fanon, Frantz, and Charles L. Markmann. Black Skin, White Masks. , 1967. Print.
Phoenix, Aisha. “Colourism and the Politics of Beauty.” Feminist Review, no. 108,
2014, pp. 97–105. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24571924. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.