Status Updates From Peau noire, masques blancs

A bit more Marxism seems to be creeping in - Quote from Pierre Naville: “To speak of society’s dreams as one speaks of an individual’s dreams… is once again to reverse the natural order of things, since, on the contrary, it is the economic and social conditions of the class struggle that explain and determine the actual conditions [on] which… the contents of an individual’s dreams depends.”

The fourth chapter is focused on dispelling the myth of inherent dependency or insubordination of colonized people (and, in general, “inferiorized” people) - it is not something inherent to these groups, but something imposed on them (feels obvious in modern context, but it’s much more extensive in-book and was written in the ‘50s). Sartre - “It is the anti-Semite who makes the Jew.”

Difficult but necessary read. To be read again.