use of color in popular media with reference to "black skin and white masks"

Use of Color in Popular media with reference to “Black Skin

and White Masks”

Prepared byVaidehi Hariyani

Semester -3Batch- 2015-17

Department of English,MKBU

“Black Skin, White Masks”(1952)

• Frantz Fanon• Deals with psychology

of racism.• Originally it was the

manuscript of the doctoral thesis.

• Divided into 8 parts

• 8.)Way of conclusion

• 5.)The lived experience of the Black man

• 4.)The Dependency of the colonized

• 1.)The Black man and Language

2.)The woman of

color and the White man

3.)The man of color and the

White woman

7.)The Black man and

recognition

6.)The Black man and

Psychopathology

• “We are the chosen people; look at the color of our skin. The others are black or yellow. That is because of their sins.”

- Frantz Fanon

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• Most of the advertisements represent an archetypal racial mindset.

• Desire to become white….

Bollywood Movies

Fashion

Daily soaps

Song lyrics

• Hum kale hai to kya hua dilwale hai…..• Gore Gore mukhde pe kala kala chashma….• Kanudo kalo kalo, radha che gori gori….• Gori hai kalaiyan….• Chittiyan Kalaiyan re…oh baby meri white

kalaiyan hai…

What is color?

• Color is a fact. • Whether you are black or white, you have to

accept certain limitations.• Color here is a mental state.• “The white man is sealed in his whiteness. The

black man in his blackness.”• There are no binaries, desire is common to all.

Fanon begins his work with the idea of humanism.

“Towards a new humanism Understanding among men Our colored brothers Mankind, I believe in you… Race prejudice To understand to love.”

Conclusion

• All these problems of racial discrimination are mental constructions.

• It is humanism that is important not color.

Reference

• https://www.youtube.com/• Google Images• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Skin,_

White_Masks• Classnotes (23/8/2016) – Prof.Balaji

Rangnathan (Central University)

Thank You…..• For questions and suggestions…..• Email – vaidehi09hariyani@gmail.com