Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon (used)

First published in 1968, this crucial text by Fanon received immediate recognition. Fanon uses psychoanalysis and psychological theory to explain the feelings of dependency and inadequacy that black people experience in a white world. Originally formulated to combat the oppression of black people, Fanon’s insights are now being taken up by other oppressed groups–including feminists–and used in their struggle for cultural and political autonomy. Like Marx, Fanon wanted to change the world as well as describe it. The sustained influence of his writings realize this ambition.

‘One feels a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage and despair.’ – New York Times

‘A strange, haunting mélange of existential analysis, revolutionary manifesto, metaphysics, prose, poetry and literary criticism.’ – Newsweek