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Fanon, Frantz
Frantz Fanon is probably the most well-known activist and theorist of the anticolonial independence movements of the post–World War II period. His ideas on colonialism, antiblack racism, and the struggle for freedom have had a huge influence around the world and have been central to theories of violence and postcolonialism.
Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1925 to middle-class parents. At the time of Fanon’s childhood and adolescence, Martinique was a colony of France, but its status was changed in 1946 when it became one of the French Overseas Departments. Fanon was educated at the prestigious Lycée Schoelcher where he was taught by the poet Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the negritude movement, which aimed to reappraise black culture ...
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