***Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Mask"(PDF)****(RS)

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Black Skin, White Mask By Frantz Fanon

"The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon . . . or too late.

I do not come with timeless truths.

What does a man want?

What does a black man want?

At the risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.

There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born.

Man is not merely a possibility of recapture or of negation. If it is true that consciousness is a process of transcendence, we have to see too that this transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding. Man is a yes that vibrates to cosmic harmonies. Uprooted, pursued, baffled, doomed to watch the dissolution of the truths that he has worked out for himself one after another, he has to give up projecting onto the world an antinomy that coexists with him.

The black is a black man; that is, as the result of a series of aberration of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated." Frantz Fanon, excerpted from the book.


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is this fiction?

Nuh uh, this is young Fanon. He's was just writing in a poetic fashion. His work is as psychologist and cultural analyst during the Algerian liberation improves with each piece he released, in my opinion, culminating with Wretcheed of the Earth. He mainly discusses classism, as the title alludes. Check him out, this is a pretty smooth read...
 
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Black Skin, White Mask By Frantz Fanon

"The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon . . . or too late.

I do not come with timeless truths.

What does a man want?

What does a black man want?

At the risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.

There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born.

Man is not merely a possibility of recapture or of negation. If it is true that consciousness is a process of transcendence, we have to see too that this transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding. Man is a yes that vibrates to cosmic harmonies. Uprooted, pursued, baffled, doomed to watch the dissolution of the truths that he has worked out for himself one after another, he has to give up projecting onto the world an antinomy that coexists with him.

The black is a black man; that is, as the result of a series of aberration of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated." Frantz Fanon, excerpted from the book.


Download and Enjoy!!!: http://rapidshare.com/files/274669174/Black_Skin_White_Masks.pdf

Wow I read this around '73. I see they changed the cover but its a good read. Maybe difficult for some to comprehend.
 
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