Black Skin, White Masks
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Black Skin, White Masks

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Frantz Fanon
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The title of Fanon’s book, Black Skin, White Masks, refers to the ways in which black Antilleans strive to be seen as white—by emulating the tastes and behaviors of white people, having white romantic…

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