POLB90H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Frantz Fanon, Maquiladora, Revolutionary Struggle
2 Jan 2014
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Fanon was a black psychiatrist from martinique who was involved in the algerian struggle for independence from. Fanon"s critical work has established him as an outstanding theoretician of a wide range of issues, such as identity, nationalism, black consciousness, the role of violence in the struggle for decolonization, and language as an index of power. His body of work has been influential for fields like philosophy, politics, psychiatry, cultural studies, and gender studies, as well. Black skin, white masks and the wretched of the earth two books that state fanon"s anti- colonial revolutionary thoughts- made him an important contributor in the field of postcolonial studies. Fanon became aware psychological and cultural impact of colonialism. He argued that what it did was inculcated the notion that everything european was superior. Fanon argued that the colonized were not only weighted down by economic notions, but the idea of cultural inferiority of the colonized.
