Image of Franz Fanon

"When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”


On December 6, 1961, Frantz Fanon passed away at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. A psychiatrist, Pan-Africanist, writer, and revolutionary, he was born in Martinique in 1925. In 1952 he published Black Skin, White Masks, which exposed the negative effects of colonization on the mental state of subjugated peoples. At his death, his most famous work was published, The Wretched of the Earth. In 1959, he published A Dying Colonialism. Previously, unpublished essays by Fanon were published in Toward the African Revolution in 1964. A large volume of formerly unpublished work, including his dissertation, was published in the collection, Alienation and Freedom, in 2018. Last year, Interventions published an archived speech Fanon gave in Accra, Ghana in August 1960, to the World Assembly of Youth (WAY).
 

 

Lou Turner (Urban & Regional Planning)

Reading List & Schedule
September 10Black Skin, White Masks, tr. Ch. Markmann (Grove Press, 1967)
  • Introduction (8 pages)
  • Ch. 1. Introduction (23 pages)
  • Ch. 4. The So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonized Peoples (25 pages)
  • Ch. 5. The Fact of Blackness (31 pages)
  • Ch. 7. The Negro and Recognition (12 pages)
September 17Toward the African Revolution, tr. Haakon Chevalier (Grove Press, 1967)
  • North African Syndrome (13 pages)
  • Racism and Culture (15 pages)
  • Letter to a Frenchman (5 pages)
  • Letter to the Resident Minister (3 pages)
  • French Intellectuals & Democrats and the Algerian Revolution (15 pages)
  • Decolonization and Independence (7 pages)
  • A Continued Crisis (6 pages)
  • Letter to the Youth of Africa (6 pages)
  • First Truths of the Colonial Problem (6 pages)
  • The Algerian War and Man’s Liberation (5 pages)
  • Racist Fury in France (3 pages)
  • Unity and Effective Solidarity Are the Conditions for African Liberation (4 pages)
  • This Africa to Come (13 pages)
  • Lumumba’s Death: Could We Do Otherwise? (6 pages)
 Alienation & Freedom, tr. Steven Corcoran, eds. Jean Kalfa and Robert Young (Bloomsbury, 2018)
  • Daily life in the Douars (12 pages)
  • The Meeting Between Psychiatry & Society (19 pages)
  • The Western World & the Fascist Experience in France (4 pages)
  • Richard Wright’s White Man, Listen! (3 pages)
  • Why We Use Violence (7 pages)
  • Letter to Ali Shariati (3 pages)
 Interventions
  • Frantz Fanon (12 Jun 2025): “Address on Algeria”: Frantz Fanon’s speech in Accra, Ghana, August 1960, in its three versions, Interventions, DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2025.2494357
September 24A Dying Colonialism, tr. Haakon Chevalier (Grove Press, 1969)
  • A Dying Colonialism (179 pages)
October 1Wretched of the Earth, tr. Constance Farrington (Grove Press, 1966)
  • Preface (J-P Sartre) (19 pages)
  • Concerning Violence (57 pages)
  • Spontaneity: Its Strength & Weakness (33 pages)
October 8Wretched of the Earth
  • The Pitfalls of National Consciousness (45 pages)
October 15Wretched of the Earth
  • On National Culture (35 pages)
  • Conclusion (4 pages)