Reviews

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

jeffer's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

lilyjoy's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

massie38's review

informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

ajmcwhinney's review against another edition

4.0

Deeply compelling and beautifully written. Last 3 chapters are amazing. Yes, there are the well-known issues Fanon has; namely some misogyny and homophobia that comes through pretty clear in some moments. Read critiques/work on Fanon on top of this for a more fully rigorous framework of applicability of psychoanalysis to race (ie. Hortense Spillers). This is a fantastic start though.

shuashwa18's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.75

laurenceratte's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

mrbear's review

2.0

This book was interesting but not really enjoyable or powerful. It certainly raised a lot of good points and its anecdotal evidence was meaningful and easy to follow, but it often fell victim to its own style, becoming too conversational yet discussing too serious of a topic. While I understood that Fanon was going for an easy to read, honest book, I feel that Black Skin, White Masks may have taken that concept too far. Also, some of the graphic descriptions were a little awkward...

ehhhsu's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

25anayat's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

bipp's review

3.0

*3.5