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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

Red Menace

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Racism and Inequality in Our Society

In a colonial context whether in algeria or in the united states white supremacy and racism constantly give rise to these exact same stereotypes about racial religious and ethnic minorities those stereotypes then shape politics and infiltrate the entire superstructure including science itself. fennon reminds us that these stereotypes are not inherent qualities of oppressed or colonized people but rather a racist projection on the part of the white supremacist power structures. It's a manifestation of the very conditions created by colonialism and oppression in the first place it's a result of the institutional dehumanization the material oppression, lack of community and opportunity and the psycho emotional devastation wrought by occupation and domination. Fennon: The real cause is obscured by the colonizer

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