*SOLD*

Paris, 1952
 
First edition, first printing of Fanon’s first book. Chip to lower
spine, cover edges worn with a moderate split to lower rear
hinge. Usual textblock browning due to poor paper quality.
Interior clean, some leaves still unopened. Overall, a Very
Good copy of an uncommon and influential book.
 
“Though just 27 at the time of its publication, the work displays incredible literacy in major intellectual trends of the time: psychoanalysis, existentialism, phenomenology, and dialectics, as well as, most prominently, the early Négritude movement and U.S. based critical race work in figures like Richard Wright. Modest in length, the book is notable for its enormous ambition, seeking to understand the foundations of anti-Black racism in the deepest recesses of consciousness and the social world. The book is Fanon’s major work on blackness. In fact, his focus shifts in the years following the publication of Black Skin, White Masks, moving away from blackness as a problem—perhaps the problem—of the modern world and toward a wider theory of the oppressed, colonialism, and revolutionary resistance to the reach of coloniality as a system.”(Stanford Philosophy)