SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: National Liberation Front (Algeria), Frantz Fanon, Anti-Imperialism
25 Jun 2020
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A theoretical tradition that emerged during the dismantling of colonial regimes in the 1950s and. Seeks to critique the ideologies that upheld colonialism and the social and psychological effects of colonialism on the colonized. Born 1925 in martinique; died 1961 at 36 from leukemia. Books inspired anticolonial movements in palestine, south africa, us, etc. Combines sociology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy to theorize the experience of colonial domination. Like dubois, fanon views colonial subjects as experiencing a double consciousness, a divided self. Like beauvoir, fanon theorizes the colonized as other to the colonizer. Key to identify is recognition of self by others. All human beings need and desire recognition in order to secure their own dignity and self-realization. To be fully human is to be recognized as such by others. Constant lack of recognition may actually lead to extreme depression and psychosis. The situation is unbearable must forever absorb himself in uncovering resistance, opposition, challenge .
