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And here I was thinking it was going to be about Fanon [1] versus the canonical political/social theories of his time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz
by mtalantikite 3y ago
And here I was thinking it was going to be about Fanon [1] versus the canonical political/social theories of his time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon
- layer8 3y agoAdmit it, you just googled for “fanon” (as did I).
- nkurz 3y agoProbably not. Frantz Fanon is a really big name in some circles. I started the article thinking it was going to be about him too, and scanned the comments to find someone else who had the same false impression.
- mtalantikite 3y agoHaha, no, I read a lot of his work as a teenager as well as in college. I'm Algerian (Kabyle) and Fanon lived in my father's home city for a while. His work was very important in the decolonization movements and you'll encounter his writing all over classes in political economy, afro-am, marxism, etc.