How long does it take to read Black Skin, White Masks?
Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Anthony Appiah
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Anthony Appiah takes about 4 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 232 pages, about 63,800 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Black Skin, White Masks is a work by the philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon that examines how racism and colonial domination shape the psyche of Black people. Drawing on psychoanalysis and his own experiences, Fanon traces how Blackness is constructed and how it produces feelings of dependency and inadequacy. He argues that colonized people who absorb the culture and language of the colonizer adopt the "white masks" of the title, yet remain cast as inferior. He also considers how images in children's media link blackness to villainy, and he discusses writers, philosophy and desire for white approval.
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Subjects: Black race, Blacks, Psychology, Race discrimination, Racism, Social conditions
