This document provides a summary of a presentation on chapters 1-3 of Frantz Fanon's book "Black Skin, White Masks". The presentation was given by Dhruvi Chavda for their third semester paper on post-colonial literature. It summarizes the key points of each chapter, including how language constructs ideas of civilization, the relationship between black men and white women, and Fanon's view of colonialism dehumanizing natives and causing black men to see themselves through the lens of the white man.

1. Presentation By: Dhruvi Chavda
Roll No. : 6
Semester: 3rd
Year: 2015
Paper Name: The Post- Colonial
Literature
Topic: Chapter-1,2,3in Black skin, White
Mask
Submitted To: Department of English.
M. K. B. U.

2. He was born in 20 July
1925.
He was died on 6
December 1961.
Published in English
1967
Black skin white mask
is a sociological study
of the psychology of
racism and the
dehumanization
inherent to colonial
domination.

4. Black skin, White Masks’
written by Frantz Fanon in 1952.
‘The title of the novel is itself
suggestive.’ Black Skin, White
Masks’.
Divided in to the 8 parts.
206 pages.
‘Masks’ is the Central theme
in the writing of the 20th
century writers.
Introduction:
“Black skin, White Masks’’

5. 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.:
Divided in to the 8 Parts:

6. 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.

7. Chapter:1 The Black Man and Language
Martineque ( Carribbean) 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 student.ts in a blind,

8. 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 is a kind of
a race which is not
black and white.

9. 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”

11. 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'.
Conclusion

12. Thank you…