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Frantz Fanon - Coggle Diagram
Frantz Fanon
Who is Fanon?
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Psychiatrist, philosopher and sociologist
Racism:
'Racism belongs to the shameless exploitation of one group of men by another which has reached a higher stage of technical development'
'the effective disalienation of the black man entails an immediate recognition of social and economic realities'
'If there is an inferiority complex, it is the outcome of a double process: primarily economic, subsequently, the internalization or the epidermalization of this inferiority'. - 1952
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Writes with personal experience as a Black man in metropolitan France and the exclusion and inferiority he felt
Didn't want to find refuge in the past - finding refuge in the past one's 'race' goes against 'the realities' of the day
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How does colonial white European society construct the Black man as 'other'? How does this produce alienation?
"The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation". - 1952
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Private property as the original sin in world history, dehumanisation of black men, the reduction of black men to the level of private property, to chattel. Forsythe, 1970
Colonialism has brought the black and white peoples into a relationship of uneven reciprocity. Forsythe, 1970
All pervasive superiority of the European's self-perception - continued denial to the colonised of the right to self-determination
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' Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny [him] all attributes of humanity, colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question 'In reality, who am I?'
This creates an *inferiority complex in which black man always objectifies himself in relation ti the settler
Gandhi and Fanon article - colonial dominance was a 'wholesale economic, cultural, psychological and social subjugation of the 'native to the 'settler'
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What is his theory of violence? how has it been criticised? What are the different ways to interpret it?
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'the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without barbarity'.
'The Wretched of the Earth', 1961
Should be brought be brought about from 'The Wretched of the Earth' - dispossessed rural peasants/lumpen-proletariat
'It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained. Thus, reality-in-itself for-itself can be achieved only through the risk that conflict implies'.
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Violence unifies and mobilises the people 'The practice of violence binds them together as a whole', 1961
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Liberation as the freeing of man and his society from all the chains which formely held them in bondage - ghandi reading
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