Frantz Fanon The Fact Of Blackness Analysis

Furthermore, racial groups have been formed by superior and dominant powers in a society that uses the concept to create limitations and oppression to those that are not from the pure race. In Frantz Fanon’s writing “The Fact of Blackness”, he focuses on the issue of race and identity by telling a story of a colored man and his oppression by the white race. The white race has always been superior as Fanon mentions also in his writing that the “white world, the only honorable one” (260). It is clear in Fanon’s writing and also in Omi and Winant’s article that “In the United States, the black/white color has historically been rigidly define and enforced. White is seen as a ‘pure’ category. Any racial intermixture makes one ‘nonwhite’”. In the
United States and in other parts of the world that there is always a split between the white race viewed as the dominant, pure race and the colored race that were not seen as equal to the white. Moreover, in the “Race-The Power of an Illusion” episode, it was discussed that “You don't want a superior race, a race with great qualities of intellect and achievement to mix with a race on a lower stage of civilization that has fewer of these characteristics”. There is only a very small variation between DNA in human being’s and “intellect and achievement” are not based on biological factors that is only given to one race indicating that race is socially contructed that allows one race to believe that they have the best features naturally given to them and everyone else is incapable of those characteristics.