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Born Black in colonial Martinique, he fought for France during the Second World War but later renounced his native land and aspired to be Algerian during the.
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Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
"Fanon" redirects here. For other uses, see Fanon (disambiguation).
Frantz Fanon | |
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Born | Frantz Omar Fanon 20 July 1925 (1925-07-20) Fort-de-France, Martinique, France |
Died | 6 December 1961(1961-12-06) (aged 36) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Lyon |
Notable work | Black Skin, White Masks (1952) The Wretched of the Earth (1961) |
Spouse | Josie Fanon |
Region | Africana philosophy |
School | Marxism Black existentialism Critical theory Existential phenomenology |
Main interests | Decolonization, postcolonialism, revolution, psychopathology of colonization, racism, psychoanalysis |
Notable ideas | Double consciousness, colonial alienation, To become black, Sociogeny |
Frantz Omar Fanon (,[2];[3]French:[fʁɑ̃tsfanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean[4][5][6