Source: Dawn

Black Skin, White Masks is characterised by its eclectic but sharply focused reading and quotations, its neologisms and Creole inflections, and its anger. It details the collective mental illness imposed by racism. Fanon lambasts European psychoanalysis’s obsession with the Oedipus complex. He observes that for non-white subjects, trauma does not happen in early childhood within the family setting. Instead, it is experienced outside the home and at a later age. At school colonised children are educated in contempt for their language and culture, and on the street adults are confronted with the white gaze of misrecognition.

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