Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback: Revised: 206 pages)

Enhanced Muze Note

Since he is writing to awaken people, to inform them so that they will act, [the author] makes no effort to be systematic, comprehensive, or even orderly. Qute the contrary, one feels a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair....As a psychiatrist he summons what every clinician knows about the child's early susceptibility to the fears and anxieties of his parents, and relates that knowledge to Negroes....As a writer he demonstrates what others have before him, how insidiously the problem of race, of color, connects with a whole range of words and images....Yet it is Fanon the man, rather than the medical specialist or intellectural, who makes this book so hard to put down.