Frantz Fanon

Introduction This essay explains and assesses Fanon’s account of mental violence of Colonial Racism. To explain this concept, I first delineate the colonial relationship between the colonised and the colonist. Thereafter, I deliver on how this relationship demonstrates itself in terms of language and heterosexual interracial sexuality. By engaging with…

Academic writing can be boring. I say this as a recent master's graduate from LSE’s Sociology department and after having spent the formative years of my higher education on unceded Potowatomi Lands, colonially known as Kalamazoo College, Michigan. So, writing has been a big part of my life in the…

I shall be the first to admit that I have had a rather terrible vice in my past. Namely, to indulge in the study of critical theory. The problem with such a study is that it is quite vague. …

Originally written Oct. 29, 2014 for PHIL 3307 Global Ethics In “Concerning Violence”, the first chapter of his book “The Wretched of the Earth”, Frantz Fanon, a distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique (then a French colony), advocates the use of violence by colonies that want to free themselves from the shackles…

Those seeking change will keep on looking for the quality of information they need until they find it. What Frantz Fanon has to teach about the power of new media. Technology in transition During the COVID-19 lockdown everyone I know was using their webcam to meet via video-conference. Or not. Many had poor…

I finally finished reading the French version of “la pédagogie des opprimé·es” by FREIRE. The reading of FRANTZ FANON was a constant interference in the reading of Freire. The second interference was my being a teacher-students educator (what do I do to bring a liberation movement into my teaching action?)…

Some years ago, after I had given a lecture at a philosophy conference, I engaged in personal chit-chat with some of the senior philosophers seated in the front row. One of them asked me, presumably based on my name, where I was from. Iran, I replied, without elaboration. My colleagues…

This is the second installment of a series that I am doing on Black people and mental health. This blog looks at the link between literature and psychology. This semester, I am teaching a class for upperclassmen that features Black women writers. …