AFAMAST 1122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, National Liberation Front (Algeria)

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: African American & African Std
• Course: AFAMAST 1122
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Frantz fanon: not from algeria, but was a french colonial subject elsewhere. Earns degree in psychology and worked in a algerian insane asylum. Realized the algerian patients he was taking care of were suffering from. He becomes radicalized by the experience of working with these patients Writes wretched of earth: but dies of leukemia shortly after it"s published. Setif- the town where a large numbers of muslims who said negative things about the french soldiers; french soldiers respond with extreme force. May 8, 1945 (end of second world war)- french killed thousands of muslims in the setif. Algiers- division of space between the poor living in slums, and the rich. Muslim population of algiers slammed into ghetto =casbah. A. algerian people"s party (ppa)- form of resistance: ahmed hadj founder of party: modernist. didn"t want to violently resist rule, he wanted to negotiate. After the setif incident people realize hadj"s passive approach to the french rule wasn"t working.