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intelligent and less emotionally stable than
Europeans, and this approach tainted their professional practice. Written while Fanon was still studying to become a psychiatrist, he constructs the imagined, stereotypical Arab in the minds of the French doctors, who would have considered themselves more civilized: "Who are they, those creatures starving for humanity who stand buttressed against the frontiers (though I know them from experience to be terribly distinct) of complete recognition?" This is one of Fanon's early works, and it represents some of his original thinking on the institutional and societal nature of colonialism that was most dangerous to Africans, as well as a blend of the political thought and psychological expertise that he would blend throughout his life.
202:. His central point is that racism "is only one element of a vaster whole: that of the systematized oppression of a people." His target is the attempts by many European colonial governments (notably the French) to prove that they do not hold racist prejudices while they continued to colonize foreign lands and export their own cultures as the superior choice. Fanon saw a logical impossibility in someone abandoning racist ideas while also participating in a system or institution built upon racism, like colonialism.
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colonial situation." Fanon did not see any practical benefit to helping individual
Algerians when the colonial system he worked in was harming the mental health of the entire population. Working at the hospital likely sped up or influenced his decision to formally abandon the colonial enterprise and join the FLN outright, as his duties at the hospital forced him to see firsthand the mental and physical effects that the war, especially the torture used by the French forces, had on Algerian independence fighters.
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colonial relationship, but there was no way to justify colonialism without tacitly accepting the use of torture, according to Fanon. He particularly criticized the French who opposed torture in
Algeria on the grounds that it creates, in Fanon's words, "a vast dehumanization of French youth," by turning French soldiers into monsters, instead of saying that the central problem of torture was the injustice wrought upon Algerians. This position was somewhat controversial when Fanon originally published it in
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Algerian War. He concludes that colonialism can only be fully defeated through a commitment to African unity and Marxist ideologies, or the powerful citizens in each newly independent country will start wars with each other: "The triumphant middle classes are the most impetuous, the most enterprising, the most annexationist in the world."
300:, but reviewers noted that Fanon's writing was still excellent, and that the individual essays were still valuable. Others said that because the scope of this collection gave a more complete picture of Fanon and his growth throughout time, it would serve as a good primer on Fanon's life until an actual, comprehensive biography was written.
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mercy of the old powers, and this would be justified under preserving the rights of the settlers. The competition for resources and occasional military interventions by the powerful states in their former colonies justifies even more neocolonialism, as they perceive a strategic need to create and maintain spheres of influence.
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particularly noted the evolution of Fanon's thought throughout the book, as the
Algerian War progressed. His popularity was especially visible at American universities, as it remains today, and his works are primarily read in English. Another writer called him "a legendary hero" just three years after his death from cancer.
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Especially troubling to Fanon in this portion of the book is the use of torture by French colonial authorities against
Algerians. He argued that torture was not an exceptional flaw of the war, but "an expression and a means of the occupant-occupied relationship." Torture was an extreme feature of the
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The final section, African Unity (French: Unité africaine), includes two works about the ways that
African nations could work together militarily during and after the end of formal European colonialism. The first part is a log of Fanon's travels around Africa while working as a diplomat for the FLN
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African Syndrome," Fanon challenged the prejudices of French doctors against Algerians and other North Africans, whose complaints of illness or pain were often dismissed as whining or laziness. Many European psychiatrists had concluded that Africans were destined to be less
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to maintain peace in the country, since the United
Nations, in Fanon's words, "is the legal card used by the imperialist interests when the card of brute force has failed." African nations needed their own instrument for military and diplomatic unity, so that they could respond to African problems
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This brief section (French: Pour l'Algérie) consists of a pair of letters that Fanon wrote to French residents of
Algeria detailing the problems of how they viewed the country. The first, "Letter to a Frenchman," explains the "essential ignorance" that the French had of native Algerians, whom they
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The second half of this section is the letter of resignation that Fanon sent in 1956 to announce that he could no longer practice psychiatry for the French colonial government in good faith. The central problem he faced was, as one scholar put it, "the futility of practicing psychiatry in such a
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was published a few years after Fanon's death. He had become an especially popular thinker in the English-speaking world around this time, and the combination of his popularity and the revolutionary nature of his ideas led one contemporary commentator to title him "a modern Marx." That reviewer
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Twenty of Fanon's essays that explain the movement from opposing colonialism to actively working to end it, in Algeria and elsewhere, are collected in a section titled Toward the Liberation of Africa (French: Vers la libération de l'Afrique) that takes up most of
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directly referenced Fanon's predictions about neocolonialism and the fundamental racism of colonialism in warning that individuals who were not themselves racist could not be trusted if they were still part of institutions built on racism.
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166:. Most of the writing involves his political theory of opposition to colonialism as a dehumanizing force that cannot be reformed, as well as the ways in which he thought Africans ought to resist colonialism.
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generally dismissed as helpless beasts and never formed close relationships with. This was likely sent to R. Lacaton, a French psychiatrist who worked at the same mental hospital as Fanon in
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