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3 pages in length. The history of colonization and racism -- and their respectively detrimental impacts upon black self-perception -- represents the fundamental basis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. That the black community, both past and present, struggles to afford itself some semblance of worth and acceptance amidst a white man's world speaks to the long-standing division between race, a reality that has caused an entire population of people to question their value as both individuals and members of a larger, predominantly white society. No additional sources cited.
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past and present, struggles to afford itself some semblance of worth and acceptance amidst a white mans world speaks to the long-standing division between race, a reality that has caused
an entire population of people to question their value as both individuals and members of a larger, predominantly white society. Fanon points many accusing fingers as far back as European
colonization in order to make his case for the involuntary appropriation into a white existence blacks have been forced to make. The authors insightful account illustrates how that for
nearly as long as man has existed, racism has been driving a wedge between the existence of black and white, with the white race taking every opportunity to maintain domination.
Somewhere back while America was being colonized, an unwritten law came into effect that proclaimed the white race better than all others, much more deserving of lifes benefits and
privileges. Fanon points out how this attitude has carried down through the centuries, in spite of much effort on all sides to abolish such prejudicial practices, forcing blacks to
embody a white existence on the outside while still trying to hold onto their heritage from the inside. Although slavery has been all but wiped out, the same mentality
still exists today that serves to perpetuate feelings of inadequacy and displacement from a social standpoint. "Every colonized people - in other words, every people in whose soul an
inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality - finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is,
with the culture of the mother country...He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle" (Fanon 18). A large part of
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