Black Skins White Masks

Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers who supported the decolonization struggles that occurred after World War II. Therefore, he paid his attention to the oppression of the black people, interestingly, this attention was colored by his own experience as a black individual. Hence, Fanon's book Black Skins, White Masks is an autobiographical narrative that calls for a new understanding of humanity, which is devoted from racial discrimination and color lines. Interestingly, Fanon emphasizes his opinion through examining the psychological dimensions of the "negrification" of human beings, its effects, its consequences and its possibilities of resistance. Firstly, Fanon argues that the white society has stereotyped and constructed the black

Unfortunately, these stereotypes which discriminate and marginalize black people on the basis of their skin color and race. Hence, Fanon critiques what he calls "epidermalization" of blackness, which leads to the objectification of the black people. As a result of all these pressures on black people, they start to internalize this white racist worldview. Consequently, this leads to the alienation of the black people from themselves and from their racial and cultural identity. Therefore, the black people never see their own body in a "true" or "objective" sense. Hence, Fanon argues that the invisibility and the misrecognisability of black bodies become the determining factor in the lived experience of black people. In other words, the black person becomes an abstracted and imagined figure that shadows and overwhelms the real black individual, instead of being treated as a flesh-and-blood body. Therefore, when negative connotations are directed all the time to black people they are not only humiliated but also their presence is