Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" Turns 70. A Radical Foundations seminar by Dr. Lewis Gordon
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- On February 19, 2022 we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) with an immersive seminar convened by renowned philosopher Dr. Lewis R. Gordon. In this seminar we learnt about this hugely influential book which was originally published in 1952 when Fanon was only 27 years old. A psychiatrist, philosopher, political theorist and radical thinker, Fanon is known for his writings on Black consciousness, revolution and the liberation of colonized peoples. Fanon was born on the island of Martinique, studied in France, spent many years of his life in Algeria and traveled across the African continent throughout his short, extraordinary and luminous life of 36 years.
This seminar was organized in partnership with the Paul Robeson House and Museum in Philadelphia.
About the book:
Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) is major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements internationally, it is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.
About our expert facilitator:
Lewis R. Gordon is a philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano) who achieved his Ph.D. in philosophy with distinction from Yale University and his undergraduate degrees in philosophy and political science with honors, which included phi beta kappa and pi sigma alpha, through the Lehman Scholars Program at Lehman College of the City University of New York. As a public intellectual, Gordon has written for a variety of political forums, newspapers, and magazines, and has lectured and organized workshops and political meetings across the globe.
Gordon's works include Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities, 1995), Fanon and the Crisis of European Man (Routledge, 1995) Her Majesty’s Other Children (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), which won the Gustavus Meyer Award for Outstanding work on Human Rights, Existentia Africana (Routledge, 2000), Disciplinary Decadence (Routledge, 2006), An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 2008), What Fanon Said (Fordham UP, Hurst Publishers, and Wits UP, 2015), and, with Jane Anna Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell, 2006), which was NetLibrary’s e-book of the month in 2007, Not Only the Master’s Tools (Routledge, 2006), Of Divine Warning (Routledge, 2009), and, with Fernanda Bragato Frizzo, Geopolitics and Decolonization (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017). His most recent books are Freedom, Justice and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021), Fear of Black Consciousness (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
Frantz Fanon - aversion to Martinique. Stokley Carmichael banished & stripped of his Trinidadian citizenship because of voicing & giving ‘“life” to the concept of BLACK POWER”.
"FANON REFUSED TO BE PATRONIZED"! Prof. Gordon.
I don't doubt that this is the FIRST step towards Political Liberation.
I was an orphan - at the age of 10 - and I felt very despondent... But I never accepted being patronized. It saved my emotional and political life.
Thank you Prof. Gordon: You're "so real" - I t was a pleasure.
[Although the You Know? You Know? OK? OK? ... For some reason this irritates me!]
#judeuslivresporPALESTINALIVRE
I absolutely love Lewis Gordon, his mind is superb ! I'm officially a fan of him and his work. I was only enlightened to him this year, as I needed to write an essay for my degree, I have since bought his work and will continue to follow what this great Key thinker of our time produces. Thanks to my sociology lecturer Mr Syd Jeffers also an awesome thinker and sociologist.
Dont settle for their spells. Create your own world.
Thank you Dr.Gordon, you are so right. I have read this book but as you said I will have to read it again. Based on the information you have given a whole new perspective has opened up.
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wi deh yah
Thank you Dr. Gordon for doing this.
Amaxing lecture
Thank you I need to go back and reread ‘ Black face white mask‘ such an iconic book 📖🙏🏿
I'm watching this from Bari Italy, but Fanon was a reading requirement at the University of Washington. ❤
Astounding African Jewish man! 😮
De Lewis Gordon is simply extraordinary & in every way... long may he continue to inspire people... love & light to you all ❤
Get to Point Africsns Posted his Life I’m on Dialists chair 70+😊
aotearoa-new zealand. only wear shoes when have to, at home or on the whenua [earth] jump around on our feet, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,,
Is that respected in New Zealand 🇳🇿 ,? I hope so❤ 🇬🇧
Close to earth 🌎 ✨️ literally ⚖️ ♎️ 😅❤
Wow! Respect to everyone but no, we don't have the same ancestors so I would not speak of ancestors, hotep, etc. with a non black group, out of respect.
Say it again brother we don't have the same ancestors and we definitely don't have the same DNA our differences are more than skin deep
What was Frantz Fanon’s most important insight into the relationship between ‘race’ and colonialism?
His insights were Blacks, and other darker people of the world who vame from places that were minerally rich all were under the yoke of white colonialism, and that the darker people of the world needed to not assimilated like the Black Bourgeoisie class, who he saw as class buffers in between the oppressed and the ruling class. Fanon did not believe in class assimilation, or making inroads pursuits into tue system. He was a proponent of absolute obliteration of the system. He largely thought like this because he felt & theorized that the system is structured in a completely totalitarian way. So regardless if it was a Black ruling class, the system had a default mode and that was it was oppressive and blood sucking of resources and of the common people who inhabit it. He believed in absolute freedom fighting. I know this repsonse is a year late. Hope this helps.
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An education here...knew not about Mr. Frantz Fanon ❤
Thank you.
Jan. 24: I cannot see - in the face of Famine and Land Theft everywhere - how we can discuss Race and Gender and Colonialism today - especially if we take Fanon as a reference - leaving aside the Importance of Class Struggle for Fanon.
#judeuslivresporPALESTINALIVRE
Blah blah blah unc just get to the point!
Where in Ethiopia? As you don't look like one by any measures.
He stated that there are other races that run through his bloodline, so therefore he wouldn’t look like any one race in particular.
This platform is designed for thoughtful contemplation. However, you only seem to receive trivial questions from it.
You Hate Yourself
You are the children of Jane Goodall.
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