Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Can we explain the racial prejudices and complexity through psychiatric analysis?

This book focuses around the racial identities and differences in the context of Francophone countries. It doesn't give a final answer if these differences are psychological or accumulated over a period of time when the skin colour was a major reason for treating people as a subordinate. The colonialism and slavery are said to be driven by differences but in reality it was a result of power imbalance and greed which was fed by this imbalance.

It comes with the hypothetical situations to explain an anomaly and there are good examples of how these differences were projected and internalised by the dominating and the dominated. It was not just the idea of superiority that was colouring the world but as a side effect, the idea of inferiority was also spreading in the larger population which lack the means of countering such ideology.

It happened over centuries, and it will take more to undo it.

Peace