More recently, “decolonization” has come to take on a related meaning, that is critical appraisal of Western culture and its institutions in order to remove the legacies of hierarchical, racialized thinking towards minorities and other cultures. Fanon himself was centrally engaged from the first with this decolonizing process and the question of how to achieve it. Very quickly, however, Fanon’s work also became a central text for the Black Panthers in the US. His best known work, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) was characterized by Stuart Hall as the “Bible of decolonization”: at that time, the word decolonization referred to the literal process of a colonial country gaining political independence, and Fanon was certainly central to that in colonial Algeria. In recent years, Frantz Fanon has increasingly become recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophers or theorists of the mid-twentieth century.
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