Identify the source of Black Skin, White Masks

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28 July 2010

Colonialism and the Struggles of the Black Psyche

The book Black Skin , White Masks ' by Frantz Fanon analyzes the psychological damage that colonialism wrought on the colonizer and the colonized . Fanon also bases his analyses on his own experiences , wherein he describes how black children develop neuroses that root from their antagonism of their own skin , because of the media and their daily circumstances : The dominant colonial culture .identifies the black skin of the Negro with impurity and the Antilleans accept this

association and so come to despise themselves (Appiah ix . The source of Black Skin , White Masks ' is the psychological injury from colonialism , racism , and gender inequality , an injury that will escape recovery , unless the black psyche conquers its inner white demons and alienate all that alienates him /her

Fanon writes from the experiences and psychiatric analyses of the black skin and the white masks that black people don . He describes a girl who is afraid of black people : .it is at this age that the Negro as savage and cannibal makes his appearance . It is easy to make the connection (Fanon 184 . This fear for the black skin is also emphasized and criticized in the painting How Do You Like Me Now (1988 (fig .1 ) by David Hammons . This fourteen-by-sixteen-foot painting shows political leader Jesse Jackson with blond , wavy hair , blue eyes pink cheeks , and white skin . The title is also a song of a popular rapper Kool Moe Dee . This...