Black History 365 | #52 Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and anti-colonial cultural theorist. He enrolled in the University of Lyon where he studied psychiatry. With this degree, Fanon applied psychiatric theories to his personal experiences as a Europeanized West Indian. This application is seen in his published book, Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks). His subsequent books, Studies in a Dying Colonialism and The Wretched of the Earth, would give a voice to the Third World liberation struggles of that time. With as varied disciplines as psychology, sociology, economics and politics, all of Fanon’s works grapple with social justice and racism on an internal level as well as in the interaction between the colonizers and colonized.