61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of Reason
What's Left of Philosophy
Black Skin White Masks - A Book Review
Black skin white mass is fundamentally a book about the alienation of reason Fanon from the outset claims that the economic foundations of colonial society Introduces psychopathologies into all of its inhabitants. This includes the black people or the quote unquote racialized Fanon approaches a social theory of French Martinica society as a psychiatrist He was trained in this art of medicine analyzing its pathogenetic structure Colonial society a society divided against itself shapes both black and white subjects such thatFanon thinks we can only be free insofar as we can develop and express novel reasons for our conductcolonial society practically inverts and not just ideologically Our conduct such that our behavior is pre interpreted. Everything the narrator does to be recognized as a
