Frantz Fanon was a Martinique born Afro-French thinker who played a major role in analyzing the decolonization struggles occurring after World War II. Fanon was a political radical and an existentialist humanist who focused on the social consequences of decolonization. Fanon’s first work Peau Noire, Masques Blancs or Black Skin, White Masks was written in 1952. In this work he made his first effort to express a radical anti-racist humanism that rejected assimilation to the white-supremacist standard and the reactionary idea of black superiority. In his chapter, “The Lived Experience of the Black,” Fanon tells of his experience on a train, in which he became “fixed” by the mainstream thinking of the white other. In Fanon’s case the “white other” was a child, who had already been accustomed to seeing blacks as they were defined by the white standards of imagination. Furthermore, Fanon compares his experience of anti-black racism to the experience of anti-semitism.…show more content… A Negro!,” followed by a fearful questioning of the “Negro’s” next move (Fanon 91). Fanon states that aside from experiencing the gaze of the white other, he began to see himself in the same manner. He began to lower his own self image, merely based on a small child’s negative idea of him. He writes this as follows, “I cast an objective gaze over myself, discovered my blackness, my ethnic features; deafened by cannibalism, backwardness, fetishism, racial stigmas, slave traders, […] Disoriented, incapable of confronting the Other, the white man,
