George Fanon Blackness

Fanon argues that blackness is also a constructed identity that exists for the purpose of distinguishing between black and white. Fanon explains that because of his blackness, his identity is based, by others, on a “fixed” image (Ashcroft 2006 et al, p. 292). What Fanon is implying here is the idea that, outside of racial discourse, the terms black and white possess no meaning. That is, a person who is black is not black by nature (for example, black people could have easily been called pink if that had been the word chosen to describe them) but, instead of being an innate identity, such a person has in fact been blackened by the society in which the individual lives. Ultimately, Fanon argues that the social absorption of black as a negative