The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
Red Menace
The Psychoanalytic Method in the Context of Colonialism
Fanon centers his analysis around stereotypes that we living as we are in the jailhouse of nations currently will be intimately familiar with. Western science can and has been used to legitimize a social order by giving it a sort of scientific sheen so at the end of the chapter on case studies Fanon dedicates several pages to highlighting the attempt by scientists from the colonizing countries to justify colonialism in the hierarchy of race that makes it possible.
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