The document provides a critique and analysis of Frantz Fanon's book "Black Skin, White Masks". It summarizes each chapter, which deal with the psychological aspects of racism and the mental conditions of both black and white people. The book examines ideas of blackness, whiteness, identity, and how white colonial rule shaped perceptions of race in America and Martinique. It concludes that Fanon's work presents concepts like hybridity and creolization to discuss social, moral and political issues of race in a way that can be compared to other post-colonial literature exploring similar themes.

1. “Critique on Black Skin White Mask –
Critical analysis with the Justification of
Race”
Name: Neelamba R Sarvaiya
Class: M.A. Part - 2
Semester: 3rd
Roll no.: 19
Paper no.: 11 – The Post-Colonial Literature
Topic: Critique on Black Skin White Mask – Critical analysis
with the Justification of Race

2. . “Black Skin, White
Masks” is a Book about the
mindset of psychology of
racism.
The black man trapped in
his blackness, the white
man in his whiteness, both
trapped into their mutual
and aggressive narcissism

3. How this White and Black are
portrayed in literature in different
ways?
•Christianity – Whiteness portrays as
goodness
•Jew – Black portrayed as Evil.

4. Conflict between christian V/s
jew
Christian Jew

5. •Black skin, White Mask’ - This book divided
in many chapters. Each chapter has its own
importance.
•They deal with the psychological aspect
•It includes the condition of Black people
and their mentality. It also gives reflection of
white people towards black people.

7. 1. The Negro and Language ;-
•This chapter deals with the language of
white people.
•The Language of White people is in centre,
and Language of Black people is in periphery.
Black people have to learn the language of
White people.

8. 2. The Woman of Color and the
White Man
• The effect of white people also touched to the
society.
• Black Woman also wished the White Skin
which White woman has.
• how desire of “WHITENESS’ is more in the
Black woman. Because of that many ‘FAIRNESS
CREAM’ and their industries grow faster and
faster.

9. 3, The Man of Color and the White
Woman ; -
• deals with the mental condition of Black man
and their desire to be white.
•Why Whiteness is something goodness?
•White people have rules over Black people and
they have shaped that idea that whiteness is
symbol of Goodness.

10. •Whiteness is spread as a
something goodness and
they believe that
whiteness gives them
higher position in
Society.
•Example: Gwendolyn
Brooke’s poem “We Real
Cool”

11. 4. The So-called Dependency
Complex of the colonized peoples:-
•The writer argues against Fanon’s view that
people of color have a deep desire for white
rule, that those who oppose it to do not have a
secure sense of self that they have a chip on
their shoulder.
•I came to understand that the stereotypes of
Happy Darkies, Uppity Negroes and White
Saviors all come from the need of white people
to feel that their power in society is good and
not racist.
•

12. 5. The fact of Blackness (Fanon: The
Lived Experience of the Black Man)
•The condition of Black people
•highly educated
•Spiritual
•Knowledgeable
•color of skin giving feeling of
embarrassment
•pathetic conditions of blacks.

13. 6, The Negro (The Black Man) and
Psychopathology:
writer ask question to reader that, Why
should people fear black?
 Question asked here. Part it has to do
with white men’s repressed
homosexuality and their strange hang-ups
about black men’s penises

14. 7, The Negro and Recognition:-
How different styles of white rule
shaped black people in America and
Martinique.

15. 8, Way of conclusion:
The escaping the prison of one’s past and
one’s race.
“The negro is not: Any more than the
White Man”. In Fanon’s words, his writing
“Exposes an utterly naked declivity where
an authentic upheaval can be born”

16. Fanon throughout the book deals with the
inner struggle of black when they were
colony ‘the black man and language’ deals
with language
•The idea of Blackness
•The idea of identity
•Notion of desire
•The idea of Negritude
•The idea of Darkness
•O- Other,
•Hate # Other
•Self-ego
•Self (play) (desire) ego ideal
•Black-Mulatto-White

17. •There are two such women: the Negros and the
mulatto.
•The first has only one possibility and one concern:
to turn white.
•The second wants not only to turn white but also
to avoid slipping back.
•What indeed could be more illogical then a
mulatto woman’s acceptance of a Negro
husbands? For the understood once and for all
that it is a question of saving the race.

18. Conclusion
Frantz work present hybridists, syncretistic,
creolizaion, national and religious peculiarity,
abrogation, appropriation, rewriting of history and
much more many Indian novelist work like Tagore’s
“Gora” can be compared with this book as far as
social moral and political issues are considered.
Own Dalit literature also can be kept in mind while
referring “The Black Skin White Mask”.
Here, in Black Skin, White Mask the writer Frantz
Fanon highlights his ideas about Justification n of
race.