Fanon Black Skin Sparknotes

In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon writes to liberate Negroes from the complexes that they suffered as a result of colonization. He strives to restore the Negroes power of self-definition, self-belief, and identity which had been thwarted by colonization. The black man has been humiliated, assaulted, beaten and raped. In his work, Fanon asserts that the black identity has been destroyed. It has been recreated and shaped by the oppressive colonial culture. Fanon yearns for a new black man, black masculinity, a modern Negro unmarked by colonialism. According to Fanon, modern black man can only be as a result of achieving subjectivity. He must seize his freedom, and he must choose and act freely. For him to achieve this freedom, he must be the