Black Skin, White Masks

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Black Skin, White Masks

Cover of the first edition
Author	Frantz Fanon
Original title	Peau noire, masques blancs
Translator	Charles L. Markmann (1967) Richard Philcox (2008)
Country	France
Language	French
Series	Collections Esprit. La condition humaine
Subjects	Black race Racial discrimination Racism Nigrescence
Publisher	Éditions du Seuil (France) Grove Press (US)
Publication date	1952
Published in English	1967
Media type	Print
Pages	222

Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. The book is written in the style of autoethnography, with Fanon sharing his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche.^[1]

The violent overtones in Fanon can be broken down into two categories: The violence of the colonizer through annihilation of body, psyche, culture, along with the demarcation of space. And secondly the violence of the colonized as an attempt to retrieve dignity, sense of self, and history through anti-colonial struggle.^[2]