Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

弗朗兹・法农（1925-1961）精神病医师和作家，出生于法属马提尼克岛，青少年时期即参与了反抗法国维希政府的游击斗争，1943年志愿加入法国军队赴欧洲参加第二次世界大战。战后在巴黎和里昂学习医学和精神病学，期间开始写作政治散文和戏剧。1952年前往阿尔及利亚担任精神病 医师，所见所闻使他对阿尔及利亚“民族解放阵线”产生同情，并相信暴力革命是第三世界结束殖民压迫和文化创伤的惟一途径。主要著作有《黑皮肤，白面具》、《全世界受苦的人》、《为了非洲革命》和《阿尔及利亚革命的第五年》等，被认为是有关二十世纪五六十年代黑人解放斗争的经典著述，并对美国和欧洲的激进运动产生了深刻的影响。