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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Secret spying. Fanon was one of many 20th century black radicals who was secretly kept under surveillance by the FBI because they saw him as a potential threat to national security—which should serve to illustrate how radical some of his ideas were at the time.
An ongoing legacy. Fanon is one of the earliest and most important influences in the development of the radical theoretical framework known as Afro-pessimism, which theorizes that existing conceptions of blackness and humanity are essentially irreconcilable.