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"Shithole Countries"The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 85, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 487-502
- 10.1353/sor.2018.0026
- Article
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Abstract:
An appraisal and appreciation of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, this essay argues that the book provides a valuable frame for understanding the vexed relationships between violence and liberation, nationalism and neocolonialism, and race and power even, and perhaps particularly, today.