This document provides background information on Frantz Fanon and his seminal work Black Skin White Mask. It introduces Fanon as an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and philosopher whose works influenced post-colonial studies. It summarizes that Black Skin White Mask is Fanon's thesis published in 1952 that examines the psychology of racism under colonial domination through 7 chapters and a conclusion. It briefly outlines some of the key topics and themes discussed in several of the chapters, including the relationship between language and colonialism, the desire of black women to marry white men to gain status, and the lived experience of black men in a white world.

1. Black Skin White Mask –
Frantz Fanon
Prepared by-
Milan Parmar
Student,
Department of English(M.K.B.U)

2. Index
Introduction of the writer
Introduction of the work
General ideas of the work
Brief introduction chapter vise
Chapter 1 to 7 and conclusion
Chapter 1- the black man and
language
Chapter 2- the black woman and white
man

3. Frantz Omar Fanon
 Born :- 20th
July, 1925 at Martinique (French
colonial empire)
 Died :- 6th
December 1961- Mary land (U.S)
 He was Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist,
philosopher, and the French writer whose
works are influential in the field of post-colonial
studies and Marxism.
His contribution in literature and
criticism are
 Black skin white mask- 1952
 A dying colonialism – 1959
 Wretched of the earth -1961
 Toward the African revolution - 1964

4. • Published :- Black Skin White Mask 1952(French),
1967 in English
• Author :- Frantz Fanon
• Theme :- Black Race, Racial Discrimination, Racism,
Black social Condition, Cultural and Psychological
Study of people of Martinique, Island.
• It is his thesis that he wrote to get his degree in
Psychiatry. Divided into seven chapter wit a
conclusion.
• It is sociological study of the psychology of the
racism and dehumanization of inherent in situation of
colonial domination.
• The book looks at what goes through the minds of
blacks and whites under the conditions of white rule
and strange effects that has, especially on black
people

5.  Chapter 1 – The black man and Language
 Language of the colonizer and the language of the
colonized people.
 Inferior vs. superior.
 Colonizers language means language of intelligent,
Language of power.
 Chapter 2- woman of color and the white man
 It is natural human desire to gain what one hasn’t.
 Color woman wants to be white, and marrying white
is her way of doing this (becoming white- her belief)

6. Chapter 3 The Man of Colour and the White
Woman
It is not revenge that he wants but to separate
himself from his race or even somehow to
become race less.
Marry less for love , than for the satisfaction of
dominating a European woman, spiced with
certain taste for arrogance.

7. Chapter 4 The So-Called Dependency
Complex of the Colonized
Colonialism produce an inferiority complex
in the mind of the black subject, who then
will try to appropriate and imitate the
culture of the colonizer.

8. • Chapter 5 The Lived Experience of the black
man
• Based upon the personal experience
• He wants to be a man, but in white world his
screen colour becomes everything
• He is seen not as doctor Fanon but as black
man who is doctor
• Rather seeing him, they see his body black.
• Always negro, never a man
• Sin is black, white is virtue.

9. Chapter 6- The Black man and
psychopathology
• White people have fear of black man
because of their manliness, body strength,
they believe they are mindless, violent
and animal being.
• Because of psychopathology, there is
unconscious training of the black people
from early childhood to associate
blackness, representation of black as
villian in media creates an negative image
of native in both black and white people.

10. Chapter 1- The black man and
Language
• Feeling and desire to learn language
spoken by French man.
• Experience as a colonized.
• Language of power.
• Language of native language of educated
university student.Creole VS French
Inferior - Superior
Dialect - Language
Of Negro - Of Top people
Shame - Respect
Servant - Middle Class People.

11. • When native people came back from France
after receiving their university education they
would speak in painfully perfect French and act
as if they no longer know Creole – why was
that?
• French doctor’s ambiguous behaviour –
1.Respectful to their white people.
2.With Blacks and Arabs like they were old friend
or something.
3.And even if you speak perfect French, the
Racism does not stop.
4.To speak a language is to appropriate its world
and culture.

12. These woman look down on their own race and
deep down want to be white.
He applied psychoanalytic theory to explain the
feeling of interdependency and inadequacy that
black people experienced in white world.
That they divided self perception of the black
woman/man has lost their native cultural origin.
It is because of black woman feels inferior that
she aspires to gain their entry into whit world.

13. Basic human nature to aspire what one hasn’t.
Marriage as a gate.
Misbelieves and inherent unconscious play its role.
White represents wealth, beauty, intelligence and
virtue.
Black- Nigger, something to escape, to be saved from,
something not to be....
Blackman lack refinement.
Blackman are ugly, grow impatient with you if you
point out good looking black men....

14. • Three women – Nini, Dedee, Mayotte.
1.Nini – is silly typist, proposed by accountant.
2.Dedee – proposed by Gone has good govt.
Job.
“overnight the ‘Mulatto’ girl has gone from
the rank of slave to that of master she was
entering the white world ”
3.Mayotte – A white man cannot make you white
not even in effect. Had an affair with a married
white man.