· 2023· Book chapter
Black Skin, White Masks
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- 2023year
Short summary
The abstract posits that Black individuals navigate a dual existence, behaving differently depending on whether they are with fellow Black people or white people, particularly in colonial contexts.
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Key points
- Black individuals exhibit distinct behaviors based on their interlocutor (Black vs. white).
- Colonized peoples develop an inferiority complex from the suppression of their local culture.
- The language and culture of the colonizing nation become a point of confrontation.
- Black officers in colonial armies serve as intermediaries and hold a unique position.
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Abstract
The black man has two dimensions. One with his fellows, the other with the white man. A Negro behaves differently with a white man and with another Negro. Every colonized people—in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality—finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. In the French colonial army, and particularly in the Senegalese regiments, the black officers serve first of all as interpreters. They are used to convey the master’s orders to their fellows, and they too enjoy a certain position of honor. In the white world the man of color encounters difficulties in the development of his bodily schema.
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Field: Cultural Studies
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