Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.4: Black Skin, White Masks — Fanon Questions
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True or false? Fanon blames the colonized person for their own feeling of inferiority.
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Fanon's 'new humanism' aims at:
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The 'racialising gaze' robs a person of freedom because it:
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True or false? The 'white mask' in Fanon's title is a real, physical disguise you could pick up and wear.
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By 'alienation', Fanon means the colonized speaker becomes cut off from:
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Fanon argues that a language is:
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Why does Fanon's training as a psychiatrist matter to his argument?
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Fanon shifts the key question of colonialism from:
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Fill the gap with one word: chasing acceptance through the colonizer's language causes ______ — being cut off from your own community and from your true self.
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Where does Fanon place the blame for the colonized person's inferiority?
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Fanon's central claim in Black Skin, White Masks is that colonialism:
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Why does Fanon call the acceptance the colonizer's language promises 'false'?
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The 'white mask' in Fanon's title stands for:
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To 'evaluate' a claim in Black Skin, White Masks (Paper-2 part b) means to:
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Fill the gap with one word: for Fanon, the deepest damage of colonialism is ______ — it lives inside the mind, not only in land and law.
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For Fanon, the deepest harm of the racialising gaze is that:
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For Fanon, real liberation is best described as:
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Why is the colonizer's language a powerful 'route to acceptance' for the colonized?
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Fill the gap with one word: Fanon's racialising ______ is a look that fixes a person as an object from outside, before they can speak for themselves.
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True or false? For Fanon, taking on the colonizer's language is just learning a neutral set of words, with no effect on identity.
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