The Invention of Whiteness
How Anti-Racism Fails Our Humanity
In The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Martinican psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon, examines the effects of racism and colonialism on Algerians during the French occupation of their country. In this work, Fanon recognises mental illness as one of the by-products of colonial encounter. More specifically, Fanon documents his experiences in…