Negritude Basics
This movement emerged in the 1930s among Black students in France.
What is Negritude?
Fanon was born on this Caribbean island.
What is Martinique?
Colonialism often causes people to question this about themselves.
What is identity?
This is the process of gaining freedom from colonial rule.
What is decolonization?
Fanon’s ideas influenced this region’s independence movements.
What is the Caribbean?
Negritude was mainly a response to this system of oppression.
What is colonialism?
Fanon’s profession that helped him study the human mind.
What is a psychiatrist?
Feeling “less than” others due to oppression is called this.
What is inferiority complex?
Improving quality of life in society is called this.
What is development?
This is one of Fanon’s major books about identity and race.
What is Black Skin, White Masks?
Negritude aimed to restore this feeling among Black people.
What is dignity/self-worth?
Fanon studied the effects of colonialism on this part of humans.
What is the mind/psychology?
Fanon said colonized people sometimes admire this group instead of themselves.
What are the colonizers/Europeans?
Rejecting negative beliefs about yourself imposed by others is called this.
What is psychological liberation?
According to Fanon, true freedom requires freedom of both the body and this.
What is the mind?