Brown Skin, White Masks

Name: Brown Skin, White Masks
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ISBN: 9780745328737

ISBN-10: 0745328733

ISBN-13: 9780745328737

Edition: 2009

Authors: Hamid Dabashi

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In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explored the traumatic consequences of the sense of inferiority that colonized people felt, and how this often led them to identify with the ideology of the colonial agency. Brown Skin, White Masks picks up where Frantz Fanon left off. Dabashi extends Fanon¿s insights as they apply to today's world. Dabashi shows how intellectuals who migrate to the West are often used by the imperial power to inform on their home countries. Just as many Iraqi exiles were used to justify the invasion of Iraq, Dabashi demonstrates that this is a common phenomenon, and examines why and how so many…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 1/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.