currently reading black skin, white masks which looks at the violence of the coloniser in the production of Blackness. as well as the violence of the colonised in rejecting their Blackness to approach proximity to whiteness. it explores all this in a sort of auto ethnographical way. and even though it was written in the context of the 50s afro francophone perspective, it’s still so incredibly important! it‘s also a good starting point for afro pessimistic theory.
