It’s alternately disheartening and hopeful.
When he wrote Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon was analyzing his time–the 1950s and ’60s–and his world–Martinique, Algeria, and the French colonial empire.
But much of what he says about colonialist and racist mindsets, of the false sense of superiority and entitlement born of these mindsets, remains as true today as…
