Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | Woman And Man, White And Color | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Franz Fanon's work, Black Skin, White Masks, and specifically on the discussions in the second and third chapters of the work, titled "The Woman of Color and the White Man," and "The Man of Color and the White Woman." Fanon examines what would need to be the case in order to have the possibility of "true, authentic love-wishing for others what one postulates for
oneself, when that postulation unites the permanent values of
human reality." His answer is that "mobilization of psychic drives basically
freed of unconscious conflicts" would be needed. Since he "believe[s] in the possibility of love, he "endeavor[s]
to trace its imperfections, its perversions in these two chapters.
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The Wretched of the Earth was one of those changing works for me. I am glad to see you cover him
Yes, I teach his work in my Existentialism class
Thank for you for these wonderful lectures prof Sadler!
Note for myself: it seems Fanon is making a case for change in our interpersonal relationship and avoid this issue. At least to me it is making a case for more "humane" relationship. There is at least one similarity of the need to make changes to how we go about forming relationships with many feminist who advocate the same.
Fanon is not avoiding any issue. Rather he’s saying that the issues are more complicated than easy binary thinking about them
@@GregoryBSadler Yes. I understand that. I was thinking more about his solution to these neurosis he mentions. Maybe overcome would be the better term to use.
Fanon writes much more evocatively in Black Skin, White Masks than I feel in his other works. But maybe that is due to my own psychology.
The overlapping of black or white with various connotations in language brings out so many hidden codes in language. The zebra colouring of a mind shows that racism and colonialism are received by an interference and melding of racialised concepts.
Food, as a consumption product, comes up time and again in racial relations, particularly where sexual exchange is concerned. I can imagine the Antilles had sugar plantations, but a hidden aspect of colonialism is also bodies as food, or providers. Black women wet-nursed other babies of varying colours. Yet milk is seen as some pure, white thing, not from any other body but whiteness.
This idea of choosing a whiter (better) mate seems to show not only the "power" of race-based blood systems, but an inherent self-denial or self-hatred in a subject. I have seen it in my own previous partners, and even my own family; it's harder to find words for it in the neoliberal world, where people come from many different areas. But Fanon seems to highlight aspects of it in the Francophone/Caribbean "experience," if we are to use that word, which seems a bit tinged with colonial notions to begin with.
Thanks for the lecture.
You're welcome