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Frantz Fanon: Los condenados de la tierra (Spanish language, 1965, Fondo de Cultura Económica)

300 pages

Spanish language

Published Nov. 8, 1965 by Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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Review of 'The Wretched of the Earth' on 'GoodReads'

I picked this up when everyone on my Instagram feed was recommending White Fragility, a book by a white woman who spent two decades making her living by talking about diversity to corporate audiences.



It was really interesting reading Fanon alongside Black Against Empire, a book about the Black Panther Party which I've yet to finish (but will pick up again now that I'm down to reading 4 books at once--eep). The Wretched of the Earth apparently influenced the Panthers to a large degree, and it's easy to see why in sections like "On Violence" and "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness." I remember reading about founding members of the Panthers considering Black Americans to be a colonized nation within the so-called United States, which allowed them to adapt Fanon's discussion of Algerians finding their way in battling the French colonizers to their own confrontations with the American State. …

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  • France -- Colonies -- Africa
  • Algeria -- History -- 1945-1962

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