Martinican born philosopher, French-trained psychiatrist, and Algerian revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important and insightful thinkers and doers in history. From his theoretical advancement of concepts like the zone of non-being, sociogeny, and revolutionary counter-violence, readers can engage Fanon from across various academic disciplines and intellectual curiosities.

Please use the resources below to learn with, think through, and grow from Fanon and his intellectual heirs (and some detractors).

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Primary Texts

Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

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Wretched of the Earth (1961)

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A Dying Colonialism (1959)

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Toward the African Revolution (1964)

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Alienation and Freedom (2018)

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Secondary Sources

  • Alesandrini, Anthony - Frantz Fanon Critical Perspectives (Read | Order)

  • Appiah, Kwame - Liberation Psychology (Read)

  • Arendt, Hannah - On Violence (Read | Order)

  • Bird-Pollan, Stefan - Hegel, Freud and Fanon The Dialectic of Emancipation (Read | Order)

  • Blackey, Robert - Fanon and Cabral -A Contrast in Theories of Revolution for Africa (Read)

  • Burman, Erica - Child as method implications for decolonising educational research (Read)

  • Burman, Erica - Fanon, Foucault, feminisms- Psychoeducation, theoretical psychology, and political change (Read)

  • Burman, Erica - Fanon’s Lacan and the Traumatogenic Child- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Dynamics of Colonialism and Racism (Read)

  • Byrd & Miri - Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory A View From the Wretched (Read | Order)

  • Cherki, Alice - Frantz Fanon A Portrait (Read | Order)

  • Coulthard, Glen Sean - Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Read | Order)

  • Ekeh, Peter -Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa (Read)

  • Etoke, Nathalie - Melancholia Africana (Read | Order)

  • Etoke, Nathalie - Shades of Black (Read | Order)

  • Etoke, Nathalie - Black Existential Freedom ( Read | Order)

  • Frazer and Hutchings - On Politics and Violence - Arendt Contra Fanon (Read)

  • Gates, Henry Louis - Critical Fanonism (Read)

  • Gibson and Beneduce - Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Read | Order)

  • Gibson, Nigel - Fanon The Postcolonial Imagination (Read | Order)

  • Gibson, Nigel - Fanon Today Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (Read | Order)

  • Gibson, Nigel - Living Fanon Global Perspectives (Read | Order)

  • Gibson, Nigel - The Rationality of Revolt and Fanon’s Relevance, 50 Years Later (Read)

  • Gines, Katherine - From Political Space to Political Agency - Arendt, Sartre, and Fanon on Race and Revolutionary Violence (Read)

  • Gordon and Gordon - Of Divine Warning (Read | Order)

  • Gordon - Fanon - Oxford Handbook on Phenomenological Psychopathology (Read)

  • Gordon, Jane - Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Black Aesthetics, Black Value (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Decolonializing Frankenstein (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Disciplinary Decadence (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Essentialist Anti-Essentialism, with considerations from other sides of modernity (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Existentia Africana (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Fanon and the Crisis of European Man (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Fear of Black Consciousness (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Read | Order)

  • Gordon, Lewis - On Fanon (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Reimagining Liberation (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Revisiting Frantz Fanon’s The Damned of the Earth- A Conversation with Lewis R. Gordon (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Read)

  • Gordon, Lewis - What Fanon Said (Read | Order)

  • Haleh Davis, Muriam - The US Academy and the Provincialization of Fanon (Read)

  • Hart, William D. - The Blackness of Black (Read | Order)

  • Jackson, George - Blood in My Eye (Read | Order)

  • Jackson, George - Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Read | Order)

  • Julien and Nash - Fanon as Film (Read)

  • Maldonado-Torres, Nelson - Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality (Read)

  • Marriott, David - Inventions of Existence- Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and "the Damned" (Read)

  • Marriott, David - Whither Fanon Studies in the Blackness of Being (Read | Order)

  • Mignolo and Walsh - On Decoloniality Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Read | Order)

  • Monahan, Michael - The Creolizing Subject Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Read | Order)

  • Newton, Huey P. - Revolutionary Suicide (Read | Order)

  • Parris, William - Humanism's Secret Shadow - The Construction of Black Gender:Sexuality in Frantz Fanon and Hortense Spillers (Read)

  • Rabaka, Reiland - Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral (Read | Order)

  • Rabaka, Reiland - Revolutionary Fanonism On Frantz Fanon s Modification of Marxism and Decolonization of Democratic Socialism (Read)

  • Roberts, Neil - Fanon, Sartre, Violence, and Freedom (Read)

  • Robinson, Cedric - The appropriation of Frantz Fanon (Read)

  • Said, Edward - Representing the Colonized (Read)

  • Sacks, Jeff - Fanon's Insurgence (Read)

  • Sefa Dei & Simmons - The Pedagogy of Fanon: An Introduction (Read)

  • Seigel, J.E. - On Frantz Fanon (Read)

  • Sekyi-Otu, Ato - Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (Read | Order)

  • Sekyi-Otu, Ato - Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays (Read | Order)

  • Sharpley-Whiting - Frantz Fanon Conflicts and Feminisms (Read)

  • Tremblay, Jean Thomas - Being Black and Breathing: On “Blackpentecostal Breath” (Read)

  • Tuck and Yang - Decolonization is not a Metaphor (Read)

  • Warren, Calvin - Ontological Terror Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Read | Order)

  • Wilderson, Frank B. - Gramsci's Black Marx (Read)

  • Wilderson, Frank B. - Afropessimism (Read | Order)

  • Wynter, Sylvia - Towards the Sociogenic Principle- Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” and What it’s Like to be “Black” (Read)

  • Wynter, Sylvia - Unsettling the Coloniality of Being:Power:Truth:Freedom- Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument (Read)

  • Wynter, Sylvia -1492 A New World View (Read)

  • Xaba, Wanelisa - Challenging Fanon A Black radical feminist perspective on violence and the Fees Must Fall movement (Read)

  • Yaki Sayles, James - Meditations on Frantz Fanons Wretched of the Earth New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings (Read | Order)

  • Zulfiqar, Adnan Ahmad - Jihad of the Wretched (Read)