Frantz Fanon was an Afro-French psychiatrist and writer who authored the seminal work "Black Skin, White Masks" in 1952. The work examines the psychological impact of racial subordination on black and mulatto communities in colonial and post-colonial societies. It explores how mulatto children raised in normal families develop feelings of inferiority from a young age due to being seen as abnormal by society because of their black skin. Fanon also analyzes the phobias and adoption of white attitudes that often result from such treatment. He draws on his own experiences and observations to provide examples of the psychological effects of racism.

1. Presentation By: Munjpara. Maitri. R
Roll No. : 17
Semester: 3rd
Year: 2013-15
Paper Name: The Post- Colonial Literature
Topic: Psychological Study of Mulatto in Black
skin, White Mask
Submitted To: Department of English.
M. K. B. U.

3. Introduction of Frantz Fanon:
 He was a Afro-French Psychiatrist,
Philosopher, Revolutionary and writer.
His was a child of a Mulatto.
 He wrote his first book “Black Skin, White
Masks” in France during 1952.
 The manuscript was the doctoral dissertation,
submitted at Lyon, entitled "Essay on the
Disalienation of the Black"; the rejection of the
dissertation prompted Fanon to publish it as a
book.

4. What is Psychological?
• Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related
to the mental and emotional state of a
person.
• Ex: Women’s suffering is psychological and
physical now a days.
What is Mulatto?
• A Mulatto is a person who has both Negro and
European ancestry.
• The term “mulatto” is probably derived from the
Portuguese and Spanish word mulato, which itself is
derived from mula, or mule (from Old Spanish; from
Latinmūlus).
• The politically-correct term for a person of
mixed race today is “biracial”.
• Mulatto technically referred to someone half-black
and half-white .

5. Psychology of Mulatto:
Normal child-
Normal
family
Become
Normal man
for society
Mulatto child-
Normal
family
Become
Abnormal for
society
Inferiority
begins from
childhood

6. Mulatto
Biological
Black skin=
Evil man
“Handsome
Negro”=
Illusion
Phobogenic
Women=
Phobia of
Negro

7. Negro is the Genital.
Stands for Evil for society.
• Example in reference with Jew.
“His body is black. His language is
black, his soul must be black too.”
•One Antillean to another Antillean.

8. Adopts
White
men’s
attitude
Negro’s
feeling of
equality is
conscious
White men
Treatment
Behave as
an older to
the birth
of younger

9. Examples By Fanon:
• When he was in military service, he got
opportunity to observe the behaviour of
white women. Their faces were filled
with fear.
• While reading children’s newspaper, He
read a caption to a picture in which a
young black boy was showing a Negro
village to three or four white scouts.

10. Conclusion:
•Negro is universalizing
himself.
•“I am a Frenchman. I’m
in interested in French
culture, civilization”

12. Source:
•Original Text of Black skin, white
mask
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black
_Skin,_White_Masks