This document summarizes quotes from Frantz Fanon's book "Black Skin, White Masks". It discusses several key themes from the book, including the desire to be white, the role of language and power, love and recognition by others, and how racism creates a sense of inferiority. It analyzes quotes about how black people want to be white to gain power and status, and how gaining mastery of the language of whiteness allows one to take on that world and culture.
1. SMT S.B.GARDI DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
Name :-Ashish B. Pithadiya
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Topic Name :- Quotes in “Black Skin, White Mask”
Paper Name :- The Postcolonial Literature
Submitted To :-Department Of English
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2. Black Skin White Masks
• Original Title "Peau noire, masques blancs’’
• Is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist &
intellectual from Martinique
• Philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory in order to
describe & analyze the experience of Black men &
women in white-controlled societies
3. Theme
• Desire to the White
• Recognition by the Other
• Racists Create Inferiority
• Individual vs. S ocial Problem
• The Future vs. the Past
• Black as Biological
• Knowing vs. Acting
4. “The black man wants to be white. The
white man slaves to reach a human level.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 3
• Racism
• Whiteness stand for power position
• Black as slave
• Dehumanized
5. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a
culture. The Antilles Negro who wants to be
white will be the whiter as he gains greater
mastery of the cultural tool that language is.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 25
• This Quote from Fanon’s Chapter on Language
• Language as power(Social Hierarchy)
• Civilized
6. “Today I believe in the possibility of love; that
is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its
perversions.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 28
• Love barrier
• Desire for self
7. “The Negro’s behavior makes him akin to an obsessive neurotic
type, or, if one prefers, he puts himself into a complete situational
neurosis. In the man of color there is a constant effort to run away
from his own individuality, to annihilate his own presence.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 43
• Psychoanalytical Reading : Whiteness is good & powerful in
society
• Sustain in white world black have to work very hard
• The quest to be white is also a quest to lose one’s self
8. “The neurotic structure of an individual is simply the
elaboration, the formation, the eruption within the ego,
of conflictual clusters arising in part out of the
environment and in part out of the purely personal way
in which that individual reacts to these influences.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 59
• Fanon : Individual Neuroses
• Entire Class or Race of people
9. “As long as the black man is among his own, he will have no
occasion, except in minor internal conflicts, to experience his
being through others.”
Black Skin, White Masks, p. 82
• “The Racist create his inferior”
• Hierarchy
10. Conclusion
• According to me white skin have more black mentality than
black skin
• White skin think that they are superior than black skin
• They believe that they have Class & they are well civilized
• White skin create color binaries
