Racism: The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

1. ❖ Name : Rita Dabhi
❖ Sem :- 3
❖ Roll no. :20
❖ Paper :- post-colonial Literature
❖ Submitted :- Department of
English, MKB University
❖ Email :-
dabhirita1198@gmail.com
❖ Batch :- 2019-2021
❏Racism

2. Racism
❏ “Racism is a belief that race is the primary
determinants of human traits and capacities
and that racial difference produce an interest
superiority of a particular race. “
~ The Merriam Webster dictionary
❏ “A person who shows or feels discrimination or
prejudice against people of other races or who
believes that a particular race is superior to
another”.
~ Oxford dictionary

3. ❏Black skin, White Masks :
● Writer : Frantz Fanon
● Originally published: 1952
● Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, literary
and political analysis of the deep effect of racism and
colonialism on the experience lives, mind and
relationships of black people and people of colour.

4. The book "Black Skin, White Masks" moving away from blackness
as a problem perhaps the problem of the modern world towards
the wider theory of oppressed, colonialism, and revolutionary
resistance to the reach of coloniality as a system. But that shift is
unthinkable without Fanon’s early meditations on anti-Black
racism. The second and third chapters of Black Skin, White
Masks theorize interracial sexuality, sexual desire, and the effects
on racial identity. Fanon’s theorizations return to one and the
same theme: interracial desire as a form of self-destruction in the
desire to be white or to elevate one’s social, political, and cultural
status in proximity to whiteness.
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5. ❏Race consciousness in the “Black Skin, White
Masks”
➢ Analyze experience of Black men and women in white-controlled
societies
➢ Fanon, giving an amazing and important description of “the lived
experience of the black,” ends Black Skin, White Masks by moving
away from racialism and toward seeing each man as only a man, not
seeing color at all.
➢ The close of the book, it is argued, suggests exactly this. When Fanon
concludes with “My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a
man who questions!” he is gesturing to a universal humanity which is
rational and inquisitive.

6. ❏George Floyd :
I can't
breathe
#BlackLivesMatter

7. ❏Racism in india
In India, the obsession for “White” skin tone is
real. People drooling over a ‘fair’ skin tone is
visible in the matrimonial ads. Not only this, but
the use and popularity of whitening creams have
been there in India since years, yet no one took
cognizance of such products that advocate colour
bias. Following the anti-race protests, many
brands decided to change the names of their
products.

8. ❏Siddi Tribal people :
➢ The Siddi people are an Indo-African
tribal community that descended from
the Bantu peoples of Africa. They settled
in India in the 7th century in Gujrat,
Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh.
➢ Suffer from various problems
➢ Feeling of outsiders in their own country

9. ❏Work cited :
➢ 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 3
Dec. 2020.
➢ Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Penguin Classics, 2020.
➢ Lane, Linda, and Hauwa Mahdi. “Fanon Revisited: Race Gender and
Coloniality Vis-à-Vis Skin Colour.” 2013.
➢ SKILLEN, ANTHONY. “Racism: Flew's Three Concepts of Racism.”
Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993, pp. 73–89. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/24353709. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020.