Review of Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon's astounding debut novel, Black Skin, White Masks

(1952), originally titled An Essay For The Disalienation Of Blacks, defined

colonialism and its effect on the black man and took him further into the

region of the human mind. After taking a position at a psychiatric hospital in

Algeria, he became involved in its war, eventually deserting his cranial post

to become a full-time militant in the Algerian National Liberation Front, and

stemming from this period he penned his infamous manifesto, The Wretched

Of The Earth. A failed assassination attempt years later confirmed his

potency. This complex documentary also reveals the hypocrisies and

inconsistencies lurking within Fanon, the most surprising of all, when he

married a white woman. Part reconstruction, part archive, Black Skin, White

Masks features rare footage of the man himself and experts attest to his

brilliance including......

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