Question

For Frantz Fanon, who or what is ultimately responsible for the type of violence in he trying to explain in his book Black Face White Mask?

Answer 1

• Fanon’s first work Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) was his first effort to articulate a radical anti-racist humanism that adhered neither to assimilation to a white-supremacist mainstream nor to reactionary philosophies of black superiority.
• Most particularly his exploration of the existential challenges faced by black human beings in a social world that is constituted for white human beings, receives its most explicit treatment in Peau Noire, Masques Blancs.
• The central metaphor of this book, that black people must wear “white masks” in order to get by in a white world, is reminiscent of W.E.B. Du Bois’ argument that African Americans develop a double consciousness living under a white power structure: one that flatters that structure and one experienced when among other African Americans.
• Fanon’s diagnosis of the psychological dimensions of negrification’s phenomenological violence documents its traumatizing effects: first, negrification promotes negative attitudes toward other blacks and Africa;
• second, it normalizes attitudes of desire and debasement toward Europe, white people, and white culture in general; and finally, it presents itself as such an all-encompassing way of being in the world that no other alternative appears to be possible.  
• In this book,according to Fanon,colonization is something which he though created negative impacts on the blacks and where somewhere responsible for the violence as well.He thought that black people were psychologically envisioned by colonisation, and is based on his experience in Martinique and France.French racism was the villian.