Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
New feature… essentially a quickie morning wake-up call – literally and figuratively There’s no doubt of Frantz Fanon’s influence on anti-colonial and national liberation struggles that occurred as he lived, and still after he died. If you haven’t read Wretched Of The Earth or Black Skin, White Masks, you should. If you haven’t seen Battle [...]
A Canto A Day (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The latest extract I've read from Modern Criticism and Theory is that by Frantz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks (1952 - but not published in English translation until 1967), a section headed "The Negro and Language". This is the first extract I've read in this collection on the theme of post-colonialism. The subject was barely on the radar when I was at university, but...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), was born in the Caribbean island of Martinique and served in the French Overseas Service as a psychiatrist in Algeria. He would join the FLN and write for the liberation movement newspaper. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Speech by Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black African Writers, Rome, 1959 Wretched of the Earth Reciprocal...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth) "Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war, and until there...
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Colonies Still? [col. writ. 11/13/09] (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal One of the greatest theorists, analysts and critics of colonialism was the late Martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, but Dr. Fanon's work dwelled on the crises of colonialism in Africa. We like to think that colonialism was a problem of yesteryear -- the '60's, '70's and early '80's. It's history -- right? Well, what...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... Black masses of South Africa . In other words, yes South Africa has fallen within the trap of what Frantz Fanon calls the pitfalls of national (racial) consciousness, by prioritizing race over class.
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I’m ashamed to say that while I’m familiar with Isaac Julien, the black British filmmaker, I haven’t seen any of his films: The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), Vagabondia (2000), Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), the acclaimed documentary Looking for Langston (1989), and Young Soul Rebels (1991), which co-starred a much younger Sophie [...]
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... it should be) and nothing else should be read into that." Booker Rising response : I'd cue Frantz Fanon , if he was still alive...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... were aimed at arthouse audiences, and much of his work since (including further documentaries Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, Baadasssss Cinema and Derek, his tribute to the late and highly influential film director Jarman) has been so aimed. Young Soul Rebels, however, enjoyed a somewhat larger budget and a wider release than it might otherwise have had, and it gained a wider...
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... the Castro regime. Interestingly, Wright used his appearance at the Monthly Review event to quote Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary also cited in Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father.However, his only reference to Obama in the speech came when he complained about Obama going to “beg the big fat cats” on Wall Street to stop irresponsible financial practices.
