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Racism: The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

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Name : Rita Dabhi Sem :- 3 Roll no. :20 Paper :- post-colonial Literature Submitted :- Department of English, MKB University Email :- dabhirita1198@gmail.com Batch :- 2019-2021 Racism
Racism Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinants of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an interest superiority of a particular race. ~ The Merriam Webster dictionary A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. ~ Oxford dictionary
Black skin, White Masks : Writer : Frantz Fanon Originally published: 1952 Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, literary and political analysis of the deep effect of racism and colonialism on the experience lives, mind and relationships of black people and people of colour.
The book "Black Skin, White Masks" moving away from blackness as a problem perhaps the problem of the modern world towards the wider theory of oppressed, colonialism, and revolutionary resistance to the reach of coloniality as a system. But that shift is unthinkable without Fanons early meditations on anti-Black racism. The second and third chapters of Black Skin, White Masks theorize interracial sexuality, sexual desire, and the effects on racial identity. Fanons theorizations return to one and the same theme: interracial desire as a form of self-destruction in the desire to be white or to elevate ones social, political, and cultural status in proximity to whiteness. Continue..
Race consciousness in the Black Skin, White Masks Analyze experience of Black men and women in white-controlled societies Fanon, giving an amazing and important description of the lived experience of the black, ends Black Skin, White Masks by moving away from racialism and toward seeing each man as only a man, not seeing color at all. The close of the book, it is argued, suggests exactly this. When Fanon concludes with My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a man who questions! he is gesturing to a universal humanity which is rational and inquisitive.
George Floyd : I can't breathe #BlackLivesMatter
Racism in india In India, the obsession for White skin tone is real. People drooling over a fair skin tone is visible in the matrimonial ads. Not only this, but the use and popularity of whitening creams have been there in India since years, yet no one took cognizance of such products that advocate colour bias. Following the anti-race protests, many brands decided to change the names of their products.
Siddi Tribal people : The Siddi people are an Indo-African tribal community that descended from the Bantu peoples of Africa. They settled in India in the 7th century in Gujrat, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh. Suffer from various problems Feeling of outsiders in their own country
Work cited : Bergner, Gwen. Who Is That Masked Woman? Or, the Role of Gender in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. PMLA, vol. 110, no. 1, 1995, pp. 7588. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/463196. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Penguin Classics, 2020. Lane, Linda, and Hauwa Mahdi. Fanon Revisited: Race Gender and Coloniality Vis--Vis Skin Colour. 2013. SKILLEN, ANTHONY. Racism: Flew's Three Concepts of Racism. Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993, pp. 7389. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24353709. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020.
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  • 1. Name : Rita Dabhi Sem :- 3 Roll no. :20 Paper :- post-colonial Literature Submitted :- Department of English, MKB University Email :- dabhirita1198@gmail.com Batch :- 2019-2021 Racism
  • 2. Racism Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinants of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an interest superiority of a particular race. ~ The Merriam Webster dictionary A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. ~ Oxford dictionary
  • 3. Black skin, White Masks : Writer : Frantz Fanon Originally published: 1952 Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, literary and political analysis of the deep effect of racism and colonialism on the experience lives, mind and relationships of black people and people of colour.
  • 4. The book "Black Skin, White Masks" moving away from blackness as a problem perhaps the problem of the modern world towards the wider theory of oppressed, colonialism, and revolutionary resistance to the reach of coloniality as a system. But that shift is unthinkable without Fanons early meditations on anti-Black racism. The second and third chapters of Black Skin, White Masks theorize interracial sexuality, sexual desire, and the effects on racial identity. Fanons theorizations return to one and the same theme: interracial desire as a form of self-destruction in the desire to be white or to elevate ones social, political, and cultural status in proximity to whiteness. Continue..
  • 5. Race consciousness in the Black Skin, White Masks Analyze experience of Black men and women in white-controlled societies Fanon, giving an amazing and important description of the lived experience of the black, ends Black Skin, White Masks by moving away from racialism and toward seeing each man as only a man, not seeing color at all. The close of the book, it is argued, suggests exactly this. When Fanon concludes with My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a man who questions! he is gesturing to a universal humanity which is rational and inquisitive.
  • 6. George Floyd : I can't breathe #BlackLivesMatter
  • 7. Racism in india In India, the obsession for White skin tone is real. People drooling over a fair skin tone is visible in the matrimonial ads. Not only this, but the use and popularity of whitening creams have been there in India since years, yet no one took cognizance of such products that advocate colour bias. Following the anti-race protests, many brands decided to change the names of their products.
  • 8. Siddi Tribal people : The Siddi people are an Indo-African tribal community that descended from the Bantu peoples of Africa. They settled in India in the 7th century in Gujrat, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh. Suffer from various problems Feeling of outsiders in their own country
  • 9. Work cited : Bergner, Gwen. Who Is That Masked Woman? Or, the Role of Gender in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. PMLA, vol. 110, no. 1, 1995, pp. 7588. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/463196. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Penguin Classics, 2020. Lane, Linda, and Hauwa Mahdi. Fanon Revisited: Race Gender and Coloniality Vis--Vis Skin Colour. 2013. SKILLEN, ANTHONY. Racism: Flew's Three Concepts of Racism. Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993, pp. 7389. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24353709. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020.