Frantz Fanon's book Black Skin, White Masks examines the psychology of racism and colonial domination through a post-colonial lens. Born in 1925 in Martinique, Fanon analyzes the complex relationships between black and white identities under colonial rule. The book is divided into eight parts exploring how language, gender relations, and recognition shape the colonial experience. Fanon argues that colonialism psychologically dehumanizes black people by making whiteness the superior standard that black people strive to attain.

2. Introduction
• He was born in 20
July 1925.
• He was died on 6
December 1961.
• Published in
English1967
• Black skin white
mask is a
sociological study of
the psychology of
racism and the
dehumanization
inherent to colonial
domination.

3. Frantz Fanon, a Martinique
psychiatrist
and black, post-colonialist
thinker.
It is written for white French
psychiatrists.

4. Postcolonialism in Black Skin White Mask
Superior - inferior
race and states of mind
Psychological
dimension of race
colour hegemony over
the other

6.  Divided in to the 8 Parts:
1 The Black man and Language.’
2.The Woman of color and the
‘Whiteman’.
3. The man of color and the white
woman.
4.The so-called Dependency Complex
of the Colonized
5.The Lived Experience of
the Black Skin.
6.The Black man and the
Psychopathology.
7.The Black Man and
Recognition.
8.Way of Conclusion.:

7. Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language
• Language construct the
idea of Civilized or
uncivilized.
• if you do not learn the
white man’s language
perfectly, you are
unintelligent. Yet if you do
learn it perfectly, you have
washed your brain in their
universe of racist ideas.

9. Chapter:1 The Black Man and
Language
Martinique ( Caribbean) people didn’t speak French they
spoke in Creole
The Middle class tries to not to speak at all.
Colonized- under French rule.
White people in French talk down to you if you black.
Inferior vs. Superior
Scumbags trying to keep blacks in their place.
Martinique people to speak French to prove they are equal.
Racism
French puts black students in a blind,

10. The woman of Colour and and
white Man (Chapter 2)
• The idea of blackness
• The mind set of people
are like this “I loved him
because he had blue
eyes, blond hair, and a
light skin”
• The mulato
• Mulato is a kind of a race
which is not black and
white.

11. The woman of Colour and and
white Man (Chapter 2)
 FANNON
 I want to be recognize not as black, but as white
 Jean Veneuse
 To France from Caribbean black student sea of white
 He grows up French and falls in love with a white woman
 Revenge from European
 Separate himself from race
 raceless

12. The man of colour and the white
Woman (chepter-3)
• The concept of
genuine negroes
• Concept of
decolonize of mind
• “ these men want to
be white too – or at
least prove they are
equal to whites”

13. The man of colour and the white
Woman(chepter-3)
 Internalized racism
 Woman just love their colour
 Not love but deal with their own hang ups about race
 Inferior and superior
 Example of three women
 Mayotte
 Nini
 dedee
 Slip back among the nigger able

15. Conclusion
Black Skin White Masks, Fanon argued that colonialism
dehumanized the native.
This process was thorough that the black man can see himself
only as the black (mirror) image of the white man.
The white man is the master, and represents an object that is to
be feared and desired.
The black therefore tries to be more like the (desirable) white
man/master. He puts on 'white mask'.