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Perspective voyage · 1952

Fanon — Racialized experience through language and the gaze

When a dominant language and others’ gaze alter the meaning of one’s body, can a neutral observer explain the experience fully?

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Black Skin, White Masks uses phenomenology and psychoanalysis to examine how colonial language, recognition, and the racist gaze organize bodily experience and self-relation.

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  • Frantz Fanon

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §2 Black Skin, White Masks; language, recognition, and lived experience

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Black Skin, White Masks analyzes colonialism not only as an institution but as an epistemic structure inscribed in body and language.

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