Frantz Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher whose works examined the psychopathology of colonization and the human consequences of decolonization. His most influential work, Black Skin, White Masks, used psychoanalytic theory and phenomenology to describe the experience of black men and women in white-controlled societies and how colonialism impacted racial consciousness. The document discusses Fanon's analysis of the psychology of white colonizers and their views of black people, as well as black people's desire to be white and struggle for equality and acceptance in white societies.

1. The white and black
Psychology
Prepared by
Bharti Dharaiy,
Department of English.

2. Frantz Fanon
● Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian
psychiatrist .
● Political philosopher from the French colony of
Martinique.
● His works have become influential in the fields of
post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism.
● Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and
Marxist humanist concerned with the
psychopathology of colonization and the human,
social, and cultural consequences of
decolonization.

3. Black Skin, White Masks
● The Book Published in 1952. The book is about the unsurpassed
study of the black psyche in a white world.
● The Book is Fanon’s major work on blackness.
● The Book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the effect of colonialism
on racial consciousness.
● Combines autobiography, case study, philosophy, and
psychoanalytic theory in order to describe and analyze the
experience of Black men and women in white-controlled societies.
● Integrating psychoanalysis, phenomenology, existentialism, and
Negritude theory, Fanon articulated an expansive view of the
psychosocial repercussions of colonialism on colonized people.

4. Psychology of white
Colonizer
● White man's mentality and
their views about the black
man.
● White people always think that
they are superior.
● White people see black people
as bodies, so they appear
mindless, sexual human
beings
Psychology of Robinson Crusoe
● Meet Friday and protect him.
● Friday name given by Robinson
Crusoe.
● I made him known that his name was
to be Friday......
● I likewise taught him to say Master…
● Strong relation between master and
slave.
“ to be my slave ever’’

5. Black people's
desire to be
white
● Black woman look down
on own race, wish to be
white.
● Black men wish to be
white, or at least prove
themselves equal to
white men.
● The Bluest Eye by Toni
Morrison.
● Pecola’s desire for Blue
eyes.
● Blue eyes symbolize the
beauty or associated
with white.

6. Black's inequality
and Struggle for
acceptance
“Power is never good unless
he who has it is good.”
● Blacks, far more than whites,
say black people are treated
unfairly across different realms
of life.
● Fight for equality.

7. A feeling of inferiority? No, a
feeling of not existing.
By Frantz Fanon.
After having been a slave of the
white man, he enslaves
himself.
By Frantz Fanon.

8. Conclusion
● Inequality and injustice between blacks and
whites. Change the psychology of the people.
● “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”.

9. References
● Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks,https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313/313127/black-
skin--white-masks/9780241396667.html,December 03, 2020
● Book Review: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon,
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/book-review-black-skin-white-masks/,
November 11, 2017.
● Drabinski, Frantz Fanon, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/, March 14,
2019.
● Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks,https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313/313127/black-
skin--white-masks/9780241396667.html,December 03, 2020
● On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart,
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/on-views-of-race-and-inequality-blacks-
and-whites-are-worlds-apart/, August 27, 2020

10. Thank you !