This document summarizes key points from Frantz Fanon's work "Black Skin, White Masks". It discusses Fanon's background growing up in Martinique and experiencing racism during WWII. The document then summarizes Fanon's main arguments about internalized racism, the psychology of colonial domination, and the struggle for black people to establish a self-identity separate from how they are perceived by white people. It provides examples and short quotes to illustrate Fanon's views on topics like inferiority complexes, the desire to be white, and the impossibility for black people to ever be fully human in a white-dominated society.

2.  Name : Gohil Binkalba
 Semenster : 3
 Roll no : 6
 Enrollment no : 2069108420170010
 Email id : Binkalbagohil1995gmail.com
 Year : 2017
 Submitted to : Department of English
 M.K.B.U.BHAV,UNIVERSITY

3.  Born in 1925 in Martinique, a French
colony in the Caribbean Sea.
 He was descended from African slaves
who had previously been brought to the
island.
 Fanon left Martinique at the age of 18 and
fought for France in the last years of World
War II.
 It was during the war that he experienced
extensive racism from his white European
peers. This would continue to influence his
worldview for the rest of his short life.

4.  Theme :- Black Race, Racial
Discrimination, Racism, Black
social Condition, Cultural and
Psychological Study of people of
Martinique, Island.
 It is his thesis that he wrote to
get his degree in Psychiatry.
 It is sociological study of the
psychology of the racism and
dehumanization of inherent in
situation of colonial domination.

6. 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.

7.  Creole VS French
 Inferior – Superior
 Dialect - Language Of
 Negro - Of Top people
 Shame - Respect
 Servant - Middle Class
People.

8.  These women look down on
their own race and deep
down want to be white.
 When women of color go
after white men and put
down men of their own color
Fanon says the cause is just.
 Internalized racism.
 They go with them not out of
love but to deal with their
own hang-ups about race.

9.  blacks, on the other hand, are
“niggers”, something to escape,
to be saved from, something not
to be.
 Their racism is so profound that
it blinds them to good black
men.
 Fanon takes as his examples
three women: Mayotte of
Martinique and Nini and Dedee
of Senegal.

10. These men want to be
white too – or at least
prove they are equal to
whites.

11. Argues against Mannoni’s view
that people of color have a deep
desire for white rule, that those
who oppose it do not have a
secure sense of self – that They
have a chip on their shoulder.
white people to feel that their
power in society is good and not
racist.

12.  Always black, never fully
human.
 No matter how much
education you have or how
well you act.
 Yet shouting your
blackness is a dead end too.
 Always negro, never a man
Sin is black, white is virtue.

13.  why white people fear black men.
 it has to do with white men’s
repressed homosexuality and their
strange hang-ups about black
men’s penises.
 Bodies, which makes them seem
like mind-less, violent, sexual,
animal beings.
 Add to that all the bad meanings
that the word “black” had even
before Europeans set foot in Black
Africa.

14.  Adler and Hegel,
 Adler says that you understand
someone not through his words
and actions but through the end
he aims to achieve.
 Hegel says that our sense of self
worth and even reality comes
from others, particularly from
how they react to our actions.
 So blacks in America,
having had to fight for equal
rights against whites, have a
firm sense of themselves.

15.  Escaping the prison of one’s
past and one’s race.
 Frantz Fanon does not want to
be a black man, he wants to be a
man, plain and simple.
 The trouble with blacks and
whites is that both have become
prisoners .of their pasts:

16. And one last prayer:
“O my body, always
make me a man who
questions!”

17.  (Blackman)
 Works Cited
 Blackman. Abagond. 7 may 2010. 4 11 2017
<https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/fa
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