Refusing Recognition and Recognizing Refusal: Tracking a Shift in Fanonian Thought

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Brief Overview

This paper traces one of the shifts in Frantz Fanon's thought between Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth and characterizes it as a change from a politics of recognition to one of refusal.

Author

• Derek Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania