Ethnic and Racial Studies· 2026Q1
Of masks and veils: understanding raceclass subordination through Fanon and Du Bois
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This article synthesizes the works of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois to analyze antiblack racism, proposing the term 'raceclass' to capture the inseparable entanglement of racial and class oppression impacting Black communities.
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Key points
- Synthesizes Fanon and Du Bois's analyses of racial oppression experienced by Black people.
- Highlights their Marxist influences and engagement with global capitalism and colonialism.
- Introduces and utilizes the term 'raceclass' to denote the entanglement of race and class oppression.
- Explains the inseparability of race and class relations in understanding Black suffering and resistance.
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Abstract
Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois’s writings focus their analysis on the racial oppression that Black people experience in the United States and diaspora. Both thinkers were influenced by Marxism and they built their theories of race subordination in conversation with global systems like capitalism and colonialism. This article puts Fanon and Du Bois in conversation with one another, while highlighting their engagement with Marxism to interpret antiblack racism. The term “raceclass” (Leonardo, Z. 2012. “The Race for Class: Reflections on a Critical Raceclass Theory of Education.” Educational Studies 48 (5): 427–449.) captures the entanglement of these interlocking systems of oppression and the unique ways they impact Black communities, as interpreted through Fanon and Du Bois’s writing. This article highlights the specific impact of race and class relations on Black existence in order to explain their inseparability with respect to Black suffering and Black resistance to it.
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