Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

In 1925, Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique. During World War II, he served in the French Army and afterwards studied medicine and psychiatry in France, where he published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks, in 1952. In the mid-1950s, he joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement, and shortly before his death from leukemia in December 1961, he released The Wretched of the Earth.