"A Black Man Speaks of Marx"

The Sartre-Fanon Dialogues of the 1940s and 1950s

A talk held on November 17, 2010 at the University of Illinois. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the years immediately following World War II French intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon turned their attention to racism, anti-semitism and anti-black racism. Both men were engaged with both. Neither wrote from identity, but rather both sought to link their reflections to Marxism, to its failure and possible reconstitution. [Read More]

Book Review: Frantz Fanon, *Black Skin, White Masks*

Book Review: Frantz Fanon, *Black Skin, White Masks*
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that there is a new English translation1 of Black Skin, White Masks (Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (1952), hereafter BSWM), since in this first book, Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) himself believed that the fight against racism had nowhere found more succor than in the United States. Fanon poetically describes the shorn “curtain of the sky” over the battlefield after the Civil War that first reveals the monumental vision of a white man “hand in hand” with a black man (196). [Read More]