Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)
Topic 10.4: Black Skin, White Masks — Fanon Questions
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True or false? For Fanon, real liberation means the colonized imitating the colonizer as perfectly as possible.
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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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True or false? Fanon blames the colonized person for their own feeling of inferiority.
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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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How does Fanon build on Sartre's idea of 'the Look'?
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Why does Fanon's cure 'fit' his diagnosis so tightly?
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According to Fanon, the colonized person's feeling of inferiority is:
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Fanon's street scene ('Look — a Negro') is meant to show that the racialising gaze:
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Fanon argues that liberation from colonialism CANNOT mean:
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The 'double bind' of the colonizer's language is that:
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Fanon shifts the key question of colonialism from:
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By 'alienation', Fanon means the colonized speaker becomes cut off from:
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Why does Fanon's training as a psychiatrist matter to his argument?
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Where does Fanon place the blame for the colonized person's inferiority?
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Why is the colonizer's language a powerful 'route to acceptance' for the colonized?
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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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