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Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a book published in 1952 by Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and intellectual from Martinique. It is a book of auto-theory in which Fanon pairs together personal experience and historical critique of “The black man” in the Caribbean. He articulates the effects of racism and dehumanization by way of colonization on the black psyche. There is a double process that is economic and internalized through the epidermalization of inferiority.

The violence conveyed in Fanon can be broken down into two categories 1) The violence of the colonizer through annihilation of body, psyche, and culture. The demarcation of space followed by such violence, and an unwillingness to engage beyond skin color. 2) The violence of the colonized is an attempt to retrieve dignity, sense of self, and history through anti-colonial struggle

A reading of the second chapter The Woman of Color and The White Man has been noted as misogynistic in tone, and within Latinx cultures is an example of Malinchismo, conveying anti-miscegenist black nationalism. . Although

In Chapter seven’s The Black Man and Hegel, Fanon examines reciprocity through Hegel. After recognizing opposition in place of desire and becoming self-consciousness of this, it will inevitably lead to conflict. Here is a turn from subjective certainty (Gewissheit) into objective truth (Wahrheit). According to Fanon this is achieved by a negation of white affirmation through an active, careful reflection before real action. Moten ties this negation to the Kantian need for teleology, specifically one that is based on merely taste.

Fanon regulates imagination of Blackness by his willingness to merely "envisage" through a rubric of epidermalization. Which is yet another form of enclosure.