Black Skins White Masks was published in 1952 but did not gain widespread recognition until the late 1960s. This was one of the first books to analyse the psychology of colonialism. ... In it Fanon examines how the colonizer internalises colonialism and its attendant ideologies, and how colonized peoples in turn internalise the idea of their ...

The colonizer/colonized relationship is by nature an unequal one that benefits the colonizer at the expense of the colonized. ... A social system of meaning and custom that is developed by a group of people to assure its adaptation and survival. These groups are distinguished by a set of unspoken rules that shape values, beliefs, habits ...

His wife was white, here he metaphorically enlarges Black woman to a concept of Black Africa. But it was probably important to him to praise the attributes of Black women. In the racist colonial society imposed by the French, the worth of Black women was diminished, as well as their physical beauty and vital role as bearers of ancient cultures.