Sukrit’s Reviews > The Wretched of the Earth > Status Update

A colonized man is dominated but not domesticated. He patiently waits for the colonizer to let his guard down, and then seeks to replace him: of sitting at the colonist’s table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife.

Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation.

Foreword:

“It is the peculiarity of regimes of racial oppression that they make immediately visible and vivid the more mediated and abstract practices of power such as class division, the exploitation of labor, and social hierarchies of status.”