For Monday, please read Chapter 4 of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. Here is the link. Chapter 4 is found on page 61.

Please read with great care. That means when you aren’t fully understanding something, read it over. In the chapter, Fanon presents a complex argument in response to another writer, Maud Mannoni, whom he refers to as M. Mannoni.

When you come to class be prepared to identify the thesis of Mannoni’s argument, as Fanon interprets it, the thesis of Fanon’s response, and the key elements of Fanon’s argument. (In other words, what premises and evidence does he present to prove his case?) Finally, also think carefully about what Fanon says about the nature of racism. How does his take on the nature of racism differ from other views of how racism operates at both the psychological and social levels?

In order to understand some points offered in the chapter, you may need to do go online to find some background about the colonial regimes Fanon discusses.

See you Monday.