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This 10 page paper discusses the cultural situation and societal assumptions about being black in America. Various writers and philosophers are quoted and analyzed, including Barbara Christian, Franz Fanon, Ward Churchill and others. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to and the culture he was told to ignore and forget. Was he French, or was he black? Embracing the struggle for personal identification, Fanons personal experiences as an educated
black man striving to succeed in a white world, also serves to illustrate his main point about how the colonizer/colonized relationship is normalized as psychology. This type of confusion and
frustration still abounds today. Born in Martinique, Frantz considered himself French. However, later he would realize that the only thing French about him was the language. Fanon illustrates, and
gives biting firsthand accounts, about how racism generates harmful psychological frameworks that both blind the black man to his subjection to a universalized white norm and alienate his consciousness(Fanon 1952).Therefore,
it is still a rational statement to claim that a racist culture is one that inhibits the psychological health and growth of a minority. Fanon goes on to
state that in his case, he was colonized by language which in many respects was worse psychologically than any other change they were forced to endure. "To speak . .
. means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization" (Fannon, 1952, pg.17-18). He goes on to state that the underlying message that is driven
home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated with evilness and sin.
What this does, then, Fanon states, is create a disparity inside the black mans mind. If he wants to be a good person, then he will reject
the fact that he is black. In other words, he will attempt to claim or portray that he is indeed NOT black; adopt the ways of the white man. What
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