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Title: Brown Skin, White Masks
Condition: New
EAN: 9780745328737
ISBN: 9780745328737
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 06/01/2011
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 135mm
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745328733
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Weight: 232g
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Year: 2011
Description: This book is a a critical examination of the role that immigrant intellectuals play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism.

In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explored the traumatic consequences of the sense of inferiority that colonised people felt. Brown Skin, White Masks picks up where Fanon left off, and extends Fanon's insights as they apply to today's world.

Dabashi shows how intellectuals who migrate to the West are often used by the imperial powers to misrepresent their home countries. Just as many Iraqi exiles were used to justify the invasion of Iraq, Dabashi demonstrates that this is a common phenomenon, and examines why and how so many immigrant intellectuals help to sustain imperialism.

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