Fanon, Frantz (1925–61)

Born in Martinique and a psychiatrist by training, Frantz Fanon's sociological legacy lies mainly in the study of “race” and, above all, in the development of postcolonial studies. Having fought for the Free French Army during World War II, Fanon studied medicine and psychiatry in Lyon. In 1952 he began to practice psychiatry in Algeria and thereafter he became associated, particularly in the minds of the political left for whom he became an iconic figure during the 1960s, with the cause of Algerian independence. In arguably his most famous work, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon sought to combine traditional Marxist revolutionary theory with ideas more appropriate to struggles in the developing world

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