What is the Fanon theory?

Fanon perceived colonialism as a form of domination whose necessary goal for success was the reordering of the world of indigenous (“native”) peoples. He saw violence as the defining characteristic of colonialism.

What did Fanon argue about?

Fanon’s argument in Black Skin, White Masks is that “the human”, an idea that comes from the European tradition, is a fundamentally racial idea deployed as a tool of alienation for the colonized.

What was Frantz Fanon known for?

Frantz Fanon was a psychoanalyst who used both his clinical research and lived experience of being a black man in a racist world to analyse the effects of racism on individuals –particularly on people of colour- and of the economic and psychological impacts of imperialism.

What does Fanon say about language?

Language mirrors the speakers’ culture, Fanon declares, and a man who uses the language possesses the worldview implied by that language. Those who have taken up the language of the colonizers are vulnerable to internalizing the perspectives and the cultural assumptions of the colonizers.

How does Fanon describe decolonization?

It is Fanon’s expansive conception of humanity and his decision to craft the moral core of decolonization theory as a commitment to the individual human dignity of each member of populations typically dismissed as “the masses” that stands as his enduring legacy.

Why did Fanon write Black Skin White Masks?

Fanon believes Capécia is desperate for white approval. The colonial culture has left an impression on black Martinican women to believe that “whiteness is virtue and beauty” and that they can in turn “save their race by making themselves whiter.”

What does Fanon say about colonialism?

Fanon’s basic assumption—that colonialism is a machine of “naked violence,” which “only gives in when confronted with greater violence”—had become uncontroversial across Asia and Africa wherever armed mutinies erupted against Western colonialists.

What are the four types of decolonization?

There are broadly four types of decolonization: 1) self government for white settler colonies as it happened in Canada and Australia 2) formal end to empire followed by independent rule as in India 3) formal empire replaced by informal empire or neo-colonialism as in Latin America 4) mere change of imperial masters — …

What is the end goal of decolonization?

Decolonization is about “cultural, psychological, and economic freedom” for Indigenous people with the goal of achieving Indigenous sovereignty — the right and ability of Indigenous people to practice self-determination over their land, cultures, and political and economic systems.