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