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BALLESTEROS TRUJILLO, Blanca Zulema. ABOUT FRANTZ FANON THINKING IN BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS AND "RACISM AND CULTURE", AMONG OTHER. Temas Sociales [online]. 2016, n.39, pp.171-188. ISSN 0040-2915.

This essay critically recover, analyze and extend Frantz Fanon ideas on subjection relationships that oppressed people suffer because of their race condition and how internalizing strange life ways affects and systematically compromise the way that they think, feel, say and carry their lives. Fanon intends to unveil the logic of submission and critically discusses the complex reasons for the alienation cycle process and the reasons for the "cultural whitening" that the dominated practice "voluntarily" in their subjectivity shaping. The need of building emancipation through a lucid and critical awareness is emphasized and he insists in explaining that the productive forces update and sophisticate the diversity of exploitation forms in modern society. The text also refers to some important ideas of thinkers from different schools of thought and critical angles that support the approach of a socio cultural policy claim. This essay lines are intended to show the relevance and impact of Fanon ideas in reflection of Latin American and Bolivian reality, which is still marked by the complex and irrefutable colonial imprint.

Palabras clave : culture; colonial; productive forces; modernity; resistance; liberty.

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