Black Skin, White Masks

Fanon, a Martinican psychiatrist, dissected how colonial racism is internalized, producing a self estranged by the demand to wear a white mask. Blending psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and memoir, he showed that the colonial relation was lived in the body and the psyche, not only in law and economics. The book founded a psychology of colonization and shaped postcolonial theory for decades.

Its legacy. It anchors much of later work on race, identity, and the colonial subject.