The Pathology Of The Colonial Situation

This white fantasization begins with the comparison of the African-American woman to the white woman in countenance who have pale complexions and finer hair, which is directly contrasted with African-American women’s more curly-coiled hair and varying complexions that are darker than those who have mostly a European racial background. To achieve this

Thesis: Fischer argues that sexual practices of can be used to “gain insight into the way ordinary people participated in the making of a racial hierarchy (5).” She argues for the setting of colonial North Carolina because it is not place that has been widely studied in colonial studies (7).

On a sociological basis, the notion of race is understood as a social construction. As a black student in France, Frantz Fanon writes of how the white man has made him a “slave not of the ‘idea’ that others have of [him] but of [his]

Once the new world was discovered, it took over a century before England successful began to colonize. When the first town, Jamestown, was established, more towns sprouted up, and eventually colonies were formed along the Atlantic coast. As time went on, these colonies could be grouped by regions. The regions of the New world, though sharing general similarities, had major differences in religion, social organization, economy and ethnic patterns, which set the path for colonial sectionalism at the time.

Friedrich Fabri is in favor of the colonial expansion because he believes it will be quite beneficial for their economy and national development. His view on the motives for the imperialism is that it will be economic and political. Fabri states in his article, “Many things in the new nation are already made bitter through unproductive political quarreling, soured and poisoned, so that the notification of a new promising course of national development will produce a liberating effect, as the national spirit is stimulated in many ways. This would be delightful as well as a profit.” How I perceive this is that because of the debates between Europe and the other countries, the other countries became a mess and the ideas of Europe helping them on their feet was promising. This seems to be a trick as to get the countries to let Europe help them, but clearly it worked out for the better anyways. Fabri also mentions how England surpasses all other countries and how strong they are with their military.

Starting in 1754, the Seven Years’ war began and led up to a sequence of events involving the Parliament. The Parliament is the highest legislature in Great Britain and consisted of the House of Lords and House of Commons. The Parliament made three acts because of the Seven Years’ war, which affected the colonist greatly. The three acts made by the Parliament included the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the Tea Act. The Parliament made the acts to resolve issues and to enforce more laws, however, some acts made the colonist very upset and led up to events of commotion. The colonist had mixed emotions towards the act because some were liked and others were not.

British America was mired with economic and religious conflicts starting from the Age of Exploration up to the colonial times. The corruption of the Anglican Church created a rift between the Protestants of England, Puritans and the extreme Separatists. The Protestant Reformation and Henry VIII’s divorce with the Catholic Church gave rise to even more chaos. As a result, religious sects such as the Quakers and the Puritans were granted charters to escape the restrictions in England. Competition between Great Britain, Spain and the Dutch spurred the English Monarchs to seek for opportunities overseas. England was eager to catch up and expand westward as it saw potential in the New World after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Yet

One of the many aspects of colonial times was life in the city. A key part of life in the city life was the variety of jobs that were offered. For instance, in Excerpt B, William Penn listed many of the jobs, including printer, shoemaker, butchers, and carpterners. In addition to being a center for jobs, the city provided other opportunities Visual B, there are many men gathered for a market in Philadelphia. Markets were one of many opportunities the city offered for trading goods. Furthermore, the city  had taverns, shapes, and churches that attracted

The beginning of colonial life started off with great living conditions. There was a lack of disease and good amount of clean drinking. These new conditions for the colonist added a few years to the life expectancies. Because of the new great life spans of the colonist, the growth of New England was at an all-time high.

Therefore, it is only predictable that white French aristocrat's commissioned Blackamoors in large numbers to reside in their homes. Blackamoors reminded white French owners of France’s wealth, the subjugation of black Africans, and supported a false pretense of African and Asian inferiority in relation to Europe. However, most importantly, Blackamoors prompted their owners to adopt a fortified white European colonizer identity that offered imagined power over peoples, cultures, and the world. Similarly, white French aristocrat's possession of Blackamoors also represented a desire to control time. By attempting to reduce the aliveness of black Africans to eternal reminders of the slave trade, white French aristocrats were attempting to preserve a prosperous time in French society (pg.41).

Africans Conclusion Some Africans were granted freedom after forced labor for years Jobs were laborer, bricklayer, or blacksmith Some of these were enslaved and other were free wage owners and property owners 1775 Africans made up 20% of population in South Carolina and Georgia The Structure of Colonial Society General Characteristics Self government Representative assembly was chosen by white male owners In Rhode Island and Conneticut the governor was elected by the people. Other colony governors were appointed by the crown Religious Toleration All the colonies permitted to practice their own religion with degrees ofrestriction Protestants more accepted Rhode Island and Pennsylvania more liberal

However, Fanon does believe that black people are disliked by white people simply because throughout history they have always been treated as the aberration in society and henceforth inferior [83]. Whereas Wallerstein sees in as simply and economic mechanization to justify paying low wages to a group of people, Fanon believes it is actually a mentality where blackness is equated with being wrong [Fanon106]. 5) Frantz Fanon would disagree with Audre Lorde on race and racism since Fanon believes that a black man cannot claim his blackness in a white world without further isolating himself as the ‘other’ in the ‘white world’ [Fanon 218]. However, Lorde believed that it is important for one to embrace their differences in race whilst at the same time eliminating the misconceptions of these differences.

In Frantz Fanon book, Black Skin White Masks, Fanon contend that the French colonizer generated a psychological, racial complex, so profound that it compelled those of African ancestry to forsake their heritage, thus dehumanizing them. Therefore, degrading those of African descent to recede into two dimensions. In Frantz Fanon writing, he deconstructs his racial complex into three unique categories. The foremost being, the social concept of French society and the impact on African descent. The following being, the interracial affiliation between the races primarily among women of color and Caucasian males. Third being, African males and their relationship with Caucasian females. In Frantz Fanon’s breakdown of the French racial complex, he utilizes the concepts of psychology to explain how French colonization constructs an unequal society between ethnocentricities. Thus, the objective of this paper is to analyze each of Fanon ideas individually to demonstrate how colonization created a psychological mentality that negatively affects those of African descent.

Frantz Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness,” a chapter from Black Skin, White Masks describes the anxiety felt while held in the gaze of the colonizer. A reading of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in conjunction with Fanon’s work raises questions and possible strategies on how to reject neocolonialism and contemporary white supremacy. Fanon’s idea of blackness is performative but not for the gain of the black man, rather for the white man. Butler suggests that regaining control of the black man’s fate comes from interpellation, the act, of interrupting the white man’s claims or ideas, or rather their misconceptions of the black man. A way of disregarding the white man’s claims is a form of rejecting that normativity, similar to Butler’s analysis of drag where one rejects normativity altogether. The black man’s lack of interpellation enhances the white man’s performativity furthering white supremacy; a way of rejecting neocolonialism that disregards societal norms.

Franz Fanon is one of the many profound voices of black identity during the 1950s. His work in the field of psychology features an unfathomed approach to critical theory, post-colonial studies and Marxism. In Black Skin White Masks, Fanon dives into the Negro psyche through understanding its origin. In studying this, Fanon comes to the argument that the dehumanizing process of colonization renders both Blacks and Whites crazy. In analyzing Africans, specifically, Fanon determines that the “Negro [is] enslaved by his inferiority [and] the white man enslaved by his superiority” and that is why they are both mentally unbalanced. It is this neurotic orientation through which Fanon discusses the process through which Africans become second-class French people. In discussing the Negro neurosis, Fanon begins with this statement: The Negro “becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness.”