Frantz Fanon was a Black psychiatrist from Martinique (a French colony, surprise) who went to Algeria during their war of independence and realized that treating the mental health of colonized people was a joke. A com...
Continue readingA coup d’etat is French for “blow against the state.” It is not a revolution (revolutions involve people, coups involve uniforms). It is not a civil war (too slow, too messy). It is definitely not an election (those a...
Continue readingDiscourse on Colonialism is the shortest book on this list and the one that will change you the most. It is 80 pages long, something you can read in an afternoon. You will never see a banana the same way again (seriously, after Cesaire, bananas become a symbol of colonial exploitation. You cannot unsee it).
Continue reading“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”— Attributed to Joseph Goebbels
Continue reading“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”— Aldous Huxley
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