![]() This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. Have the courage to read this book Jean-Paul Sartre This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism Angela Davis The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon Boston Globe Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, he showed us the internal theatre of racism Deborah Levy, Independent A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Reading it more than 50 years after publication was a visceral confrontation with a legacy that remains a shadow over black people Ore Ogunbiyi, Guardian For the first time, I was able to understand empire as more than just an economic phenomenon, and in turn how much Africa's decolonisation was expected to reverse. ![]() ![]() Fanon details the impact of colonialism on the psyches of black people. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |