ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Serena Williams, Claudia Rankine, Frantz Fanon
25 Jan 2018
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Strips a person or people of their ability to be who they are. Colonization of the mind: colonized people are not solely dominated people. It must in any case be remembered that a colonized people is not simply a dominated people. Under the german occupation, the french remained men; Under the french occupation the german remained men. In algeria there is not simply the domination but the decision to the letter not to occupy anything more than the sum total of the land. The algerians, the veiled women, the palm-trees and the camel make up the landscape, the natural background to the human presence of the french. (fanon: more brutal than the domination of war, colonization dehumanizes. Violence of the colonial struggle produces disease (mental disease) Who"s suffering: both the colonizer and the colonized. Bridge between anger and artist: anger built up through experience.
