1. Chapter-3 : The Man of Color and
the white women
Name : Radha Ghevariya
Roll No: 22
Paper : (11) The Postcolonial Literature
Enrollment No. : PG14101013
Year : 2015- ‘16
Email: radhaghevariya55@gmail.com
Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of
English Bhavnagar University
2. Introduction
*Frantz Fanon was a French
Philosopher revolutionary and
author .
* Fanon is known as a radical
humanist.
* In 1952, fanon wrote his first book,
Black skin, White Masks, an analysis
of the negative psychological effect
of colonial subjugation upon black
people.
3. The Book “Black Skin, White Masks”
* “Black Skin , White Masks”(1952)
is a book about the mindset or
psychology of racism by Franz Fanon.
* He speaks of the divided self perception of
the black subject.
* Fanon describes that Black people
experience in the White world
6. ‘Out of the blackest
part of my soul,
across the zebra
striping of my mind,
surges this desire to
be suddenly white.’
7. About Chapter
* A white female just because he
was raised around whites so he
seemed less black .
* They go with them not out of
love but to deal with their own
race.
* Men want to be white too-or at
least prove they are equal to
whites .
* Here black men wants to join
white women .
9. • Prejudices that make him not
want to join a white man’s world .
• As a proud and black skin
• Whites represent wealth ,beauty
, intelligence and virtue .The
feeling of self inflicted .