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academies, 3, 161n20
Accra (Ghana), 94
actionality, 71, 91, 97, 121
Adler, Alfred, 2, 5, 68
adult(s), 12, 24; adulthood, 31; black, 59; understanding of life, 89
Aeneid (Virgil), xii
aesthetics, 13, 23, 24, 72–73, 88–90
affect, 54
Africa, xii–xiii, 3, 11, 27, 30, 62, 80–81, 83, 92, 93, 95–96, 133, 135–36, 142, 150n2, 159n6; bifurcation of, 93; European colonization of, 93; indigenous peoples of, 126; modern cities of, 125
African(s), 11, 13, 26, 31, 37, 53–55, 67, 76, 81, 93–95, 103, 120, 135; artists, xii; nations, 93; stereotypes of, 50
African American(s), 144
African art, 54–55
Africana critical thought and philosophy, 4
African Safari (exhibit), xii
African Spring, 3
agency, xiv, 25, 59, 82, 122–23; erasure of, 92; social, 103
Ahmed, Sara, 159n2, 165n54
Ajari, Imudia Norman, xviii, 5, 150n3
Akan, the, 20
Alessandrini, Anthony, 4, 150n4
Alexander, Amy, and Alvin Poussaint, 156n30
Algeria, xiii, xiv–xv, 2, 9, 11, 14, 39, 81–85, 93–106, 130–33, 140–42, 147, 150n3, 150n5, 156n33; Algiers, 81; colonists in, 39, 130; the National Library of, 142
Algerian(s), xiii–xv, 2, 82–106, 124, 140–41; men, 99–100; nationalists, 82; women, xiv, 97–104, 140
Algerian National Liberation Front, xiv
Algerian War of Liberation, xv, 81–105, 130, 132, 140, 150n5, 168n15; Jews in, xv, 104–5
Alger Républicain (newspaper), xv
alienation, passim, but see especially, 15, 9, 116, 119, 128
Alleg, Henri, xv
allegiance(s), 6, 73
Alsace (France), 142
Andalusia, 136
Anderson, Lisa, xvii
Angola, 132
anonymity, 49–50, 93, 143
“Antilleans and Africans,” 8, 11, 13, 151n3
anxiety, 62
apartheid, 7
Apollon, Willy, 34
Arab(s), 81, 85
Arab Spring, 3
Arendt, Hannah, 3, 133, 176n40
Argentina, 120
Aristotle, 115–16
Arnold, A. James, 157n40
Atlanta, Georgia, 84
Augustine, Saint, 20
Australia, 89, 117
authenticity, 136; racial, 126
autobiography, 64, 138
autopsies, 62, 163n35
Azoulay, Jean, 81, 104
Bacchus/Dionysus, 55
Bachir Diagne, Souleymane, 54, 160n11
backwardness, 98, 117
bad faith, 40, 72, 83, 138, 153n3, 163n34, 165n46
Balibar, Étienne, xvii, 5
Bamboula, xii
Banania (Bon Banania), xii, 50–51, 159n7
Baraka, Amiri, 169n26
barbarism, 97
battalion, 5, 11
The Battle of Algiers, xiv
Baudrillard, Jean, 40–42, 158
Beaver, Vincent, xviii, 164n41
Beauvoir, Simone de, 5, 29, 30–33, 34, 47, 66, 69, 92, 132, 155n18, 156n27, 157n34
Beasley, Myron, xvii
bebop, 9, 90–91
Bégué, Jean-Michel, 166n1
beguine, 8, 89
being, 19, 49, 68, 73; Absolute, 19; benefit of, 23; black, 80; epidermal, 50; fixed, 54; human, 59; most beautiful, 41; nonbeing, xii, 19, 22, 69, 105, 127, 137, 143–46; one’s own, 56–57; overdetermined, 77; problematic, 22, 144; schism between identity and, 49; seen as, 48, 99, 153n3; sexed, 65; sexual orientation, 65; social, 13, 24; Supreme, 20; standard of, 31; symbolic, 63; ways of, 31; white, 59; of the world, 73
Békés, 10, 78
Bell, Derrick, 90
Belle, Deborah, and Heather E. Bullock, 156n30
Bentouhami, Hourya, 159n2, 165n54, 175n32
berber(s), 81, 83, 93
Bergner, Gwen, 17, 162n29
Bergson, Henri, 5, 160n11
Bernier, François, 136
Bethesda, Maryland, 111, 136, 176n9
Bhabha, Homi, 4, 16
Bibliothèque Nationale du Hamma in Algeria, 150n3
Biko, Steve Bantu, xxi, 4, 90
biological, the, 60
black(s), passim, but see especially, chapters 2 and 3; adult, 59; already in hell, 23; anti-black, xii, 2, 11, 15, 18, 22, 24–25, 35, 37, 40, 43, 44, 56, 60, 71, 91, 111, 114, 126, 138, 144, 155n19; authors, 5; beautiful, 11; degradation of, 53; denied presence, 8; desire, 21; efforts to transform the world, 26–70; identity, 15; intellectuals, 5; leadership, 3; liberation, xvii; lived experience of, xii, 14; man, 8, 12; Parisian, 13; petit-bourgeois, 13, 17; as problems, 21–22; racialization of, xiv, 6; racist jokes about, 12; “real,” 11; scholars, 6; slave, 9; soldier(s), 12; split souls of, 20; structural regard, xii; thinkers, 5, 9; as a white construction, 24; woman, 12. See also zone of nonbeing
black consciousness, 21, 130, 160n11, 161n16
blackness, xii, 6, 23–24, 26, 35–36, 40, 50, 53–55, 85, 138; death of, 57; as evil, 60; as existentially serious, 71; as fetish, 90; valorization of, 42
Black Panther Party, 3
Black Writers Congresses: first (1956), 85, 122; second (1959), 94
Blida-Joinville Hospital, xiv, 81–85, 111, 136, 142; Notre Journal, 82
blood, 106, 110, 136, 142; association with Senegalese soldiers, 60; bad, 137; blood-soaked alienation, 119; Snow White’s lips, 41; transfusions, 136
blues, the, 87–91, 112, 137, 166n56, 169n26; as the leitmotif of modern life, 89
Boas, Franz, 86–87, 128, 168n22
body, the, xiii, 8, 52, 58, 78, 101, 137, 139; body-to-body, 164n42; phenomenological view of, 25; supposed white origins of, 138
bondsman, 8, 68–69
Borgerson, Janet, xvii
Bourdieu, Pierre, 17
bourgeois society, 43
bourgeoisie, 125, 133; lumpenbourgeoisie, 122; national, 123; national consciousness of, 146; petit-bourgeoisie, 13, 17, 71, 81
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz, 108
Brazil, 89, 163n36; Rio de Janeiro, 120; São Paulo, 120
Breton, André, 28
Broca, Pierre Paul, 158n44
Brothers Grimm. See Grimm, Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm
Brower, Benjamin Claude, 149n5
Brown University, xvii
Brussels, 80
brutality, 111, 123
Bryce, K., C. Velez, T. Karafet, A. Moreno-Estrada, A. Reynolds, A. Auton, M. Hammer, C. D. Bustamante, and H. Ostrer’s study of white male genetic lineage in Latin America, 158n48
Buber, Martin, 70, 165n47
Bulhan, Hussein Abdalai, 4, 6–7, 12, 77, 81, 85, 96, 111, 151n2, 152n7, 156n25, 162n31
Burnett, Ipek Sarac, xviii
Butler, Judith, 4, 150n3, 164n 41, 165n53
Cabral, Amílcar, 95, 174n26
Caliban, 27, 44, 155n19, 159n57; versus Crusoe and Prospero Studies, 27
calypso, 89
Camus, Albert, 92
cannibal(s), 50
Capécia, Mayotte, 6, 29, 33, 35–43, 58, 66, 68, 71, 130, 144–45, 155n22, 157n40
capital, 122, 125
Caribbean, xviii, 1, 4, 30–31, 36, 37, 62, 73–74, 80, 106–7, 158, 163n32, 165n55, 166n56; Anglo-Caribbean, 26; Dutch-Caribbean, 26; Francophone, 26; Hispanophone, 26; Lusophone, 26
Caribbean Philosophical Association, xviii
Caribbean philosophy, 4
castration, 34
catharsis, 59, 90, 115
Caute, David, 3, 85, 106, 111, 151n1, 170n43
Cavendish, Richard, 176n6
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), xi, 35–36, 136
certainty, 77, 137; uncertainty, 139
Césaire, Aimé, 2, 5, 11–13, 23, 28, 36, 41–42, 52–54, 78–81, 96, 118, 135, 151n4, 152n4, 160n11, 161n16, 171n14, 173n19; on Fanon, 118; elected mayor of Fort-de-France, 13, 52
Césaire, Suzanne, 36, 52
Chamoiseau, Patrick, and Raphaël Confiant, 36
Chandler, Nahum Dimitri, xvii, 154n6
Charles-Nicole Hospital in Tunis, 92
Cherki, Alice, 3, 7, 16, 78–79, 82, 85, 91, 93, 96, 104, 118, 151n7, 152n6, 152n8, 152n13, 153n18, 159n58, 162n31, 167n6, 168nn19–20, 169n29, 169n31, 170n38, 171n2, 176n7
childhood, 9, 31, 38, 47, 64, 142
Chile, 120
China, 89, 120
Christendom, 137
Christian(s), 93, 99, 104, 124, 136
Ciccariello-Maher, George, xvii, 4, 174n27
civilization, 167n12; Egyptian, 54; Western, 8, 20, 25
class, 6–7, 26, 39, 119, 121, 125; middle class, 9, 122; underclass, 120; upper class, 38
clergy, 61
Cold War, the, 131
Colin, Michel, 14
Collège de France, 13
colonialism, passim, but see especially, 2, 13, 18, 23, 45, 71, 86, 91, 94, 98, 100, 103–4, 113–18, 121, 123–27, 134, 138, 147; neo-colonialism, 2; postcolonialism, 2–4, 16–17, 121, 150n3, 153n21, 154n7, 163n45
colonists, 7, 39, 84
colonization, 45, 65, 67, 93–94, 98, 99, 129, 174n27; French, xiii, 123, 168n15; linguistic, 155n17
colonized, the, passim, but see especially, xiv, 30, 36, 44–45, 78, 80, 91, 96, 98, 104, 114–18, 124, 130, 134, 154n7
Communist Party, the, xv, 12, 119
concentration camps, 58
Condé, Maryse, 17, 36
Congo, the, 9; people massacred by the Belgians, 132
Congress of Alienist Physicians (Congrès des médecins aliénistes), xiv
consciousness, 20, 24–25, 47, 56, 72, 70, 76, 104, 139–40; critical, 20; self-consciousness, 117, 127, 137; subconsciousness, 70; unconsciousness, 70. See also double consciousness; national consciousness
consent, 125–26
conservatism, 3, 73; racial, 12
construction(s), 21, 24–25, 31, 50, 76, 138–39; racial, 24–25, 36, 57, 172n5
contradiction(s), 18, 20–21, 37, 99, 115–16, 118, 139; internal, 98; performative, 72
contraries, 115, 118
Cooper, Anna Julia, 37, 157n42
Cooper, Garrick, xviii
Cornell, Drucilla, xviii, 4, 145, 153n20, 171n46, 175n35
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 150
Correm, Tal, xviii
Coulanges, M., 43
Cournot, Michel, 60, 63, 162n27
Creole(s), 36
Creole language(s), 26, 64, 159n6
creolization, 4, 26, 73, 128, 166, 153n20, 166n56, 171n51, 173n18, 174n24, 175n31; of writing, 73
critical theory, 3, 160n10
critical thought, 3–4
criticism, 3; radical, 3
critique, xiii, 3, 17, 26, 45, 67–68, 71, 90, 125, 129, 131, 140, 150, 155n17, 161n18, 166n56; meta-critique, 98, 166n56; radical, 17, 70, 73; self-critique, 128
Cuba, 106–7
culture, 7, 22, 61, 72, 77, 85–91, 94, 100, 120, 126–28, 133, 146, 156n31, 167n10, 167n10; national, 94, 126–27, 146, 175n33; petrification of, 127, 146; racist, 87, 168n23; zombification of, 87, 91, 100, 127, 146
Damas, Léon Gontran, 53
Les damnés de la terre (“The Damned of the Earth”), xiii, xv–xvi, 90, 94, 97–98, 106–7, 111–30, 133, 140, 151n7, 154n11, 165n48, 169n30, 172n11, 173n15
Dante, xiii, 23, 71, 128, 154n11, 175n34
daughter(s), 102–3
Davis, Angela Y., 39, 101, 158n48, 171n48, 172n6
Davis, Danielle, xviii
Dayan-Herzbrun, Sonia, xviii, 5, 149n3
death, xi, 2, 56–59, 61, 77, 78, 82, 84, 110–12, 130, 134, 136, 140–42, 154n11; of black music, 88; fear of, 68; gift of, 131; living, 77, 87; of one’s beloved, 34
decolonial, passim, but see especially, iii, 4; decoloniality, 174n27, 175n35
decolonization, 81, 94, 114, 118–19, 122–23, 128–29, 146, 153n21, 159n58, 168n15, 171n53, 175n36; of sexuality, 67
deconstruction, 98
Defoe, Daniel, 27
Deleuze, Gilles, 17
democracy, 117, 121, 175n35
Derrida, Jacques, 17, 98, 170–71n33
Desai, Miraj, 82, 156n31, 163n35, 167n13
desire, 21, 33–34, 40–41, 49, 56, 58, 60, 62–66, 97, 99–100, 145–46, 162n28; desired, 44, 100, 134; homosexual, 63; of white French men, 97, 100; of white French women, 100
development, 2–3, 7, 31, 79, 155n20; underdevelopment, 117, 119
dialectic(s), 19, 31, 56, 68, 90, 112, 116, 130, 132, 140; closed, 116, 125, 131; Hegelian, 31, 68, 115; historical, 121; Marxist, 131
Di-Capua, Yoav, 171n53, 175n36
Diop, Alioune, 54
Diop, Cheikh Anta, 54
disciplinary decadence, xvi, 74, 165n50, 166n57, 169n26
Djebar, Assia, l01, 171n48
Djemai, Cheikh, 153n18
Dominica, 10–11
Dominican Republic, 36–37, 157n43, 158n43
double consciousness, 6, 21, 32, 89, 126, 128, 139–40; potentiated, 21, 128, 154n7
Douglass, Frederick, 5, 164n44
Dupont Plaza Hotel, 136
Dworkin, Andrea, 164n40
East Indians. See Indian(s), East
economics, 22, 151n1
Egypt, 54
Ehlen, Patrick, 3, 15, 78, 83, 106, 153n17, 167n7, 168n17, 169n32, 170n43, 172n8, 176n39, 176nn2–3
Ellison, Ralph, 89–90, 169n26, 169n27
El Moudjahid, 93
emancipatory project(s), xvii, 11, 82, 59, 81–82, 92, 94–95, 97, 99, 101–3, 114, 118–19, 122, 133
emotion(s), 54–55, 156n30
employment, 120; underemployment, 120
Engels, Friedrich, 2, 116–17, 124, 173n15, 173n20
epistemology, xiv, 32, 49, 86
Erlebnis, 42
eros, 99
ethics, 116, 119, 131, 156n27; and morals, 69, 115, 119
Etoke, Nathalie, 4, 159n6
Eurocentrism, 128, 160n10
exception(s), xiv, 41, 118, 140
existence, 24, 46, 50, 68, 80, 87, 127, 159n, 172n11; black, 38, 137, 176; bodily, 42, 145; justification of, 35; modern, 89; non-existence, 137; petrified, 114; postmodern, 89; problematic, 34
existentialism, 47, 131, 156n29, 171n53, 175n36
experience, xii–xvi, 5, 14, 17, 36, 43, 70–71, 78, 80, 88–89, 101, 112, 123, 141, 144, 154n9, 159n1, 163n35, 164n37, 165n52; of the blues, 89; lived, 14, 20, 32, 46, 47–62, 73, 98, 114, 163n35
“L’expérience vécu du Noir,” 14, 47–58, 152n14
exploitation, 32, 45, 76, 86, 88, 117, 173n22
L’Express, xv
fact(s), 65, 97, 163n35, 170n43
failure, 11, 19–20, 23–25, 29–31, 33–40, 42, 45, 48, 55, 69–72, 76, 79–82, 91, 98, 100, 116, 137–40, 145, 166n56, 169n33; as (Hebrew) chet, 155n12; as (French) échec, 24; of failure, 72; as (French) raté, 24, 32
fall, the, 139
family, 14, 77, 99, 102; European patriarchical, 30–31; normal, 59
Fanon’s aliases: as Farés, 92; Ibrahim, 135, 176n9
Fanon, Eléanor Médélice, 9–10, 30, 79
Fanon, Félix Casimir (Fanon’s father), 9–10, 14, 30–32
Fanon, Félix (Fanon’s brother), 9
Fanon, Frantz Omar, passim; in Algeria, 11; appointed ambassador to Ghana, 106; associating whiteness with death, 57; attempted assassinations of, 95; autobiographical reflections of, 138; awarded the Croix de Guerre, 82; becoming a chef de service, 80; on the blues, 87–88, 90–91, 112; on the body, 52, 58, 137, 139; breaking idols, 25; called “the nègre psychiatrist,” 85; as charismatic revolutionary, 10; class critique, 125; as critic of Western discourses of Man, 25; critics of, 6; day clinic of, 92, 104; dictum on racist societies, 45; early studies of dentistry, 13; existential atheism of, 23; expulsion from Algeria in 1957, 91; faith, 104; Frenchness of, 6; in the French Resistance, 10; on gender-race, 33; geopolitical critique, 125; as a global theorist, 17; on hell, xii; on history, 2; as interesting, 3, 10; last visit to Martinique, 77–79; as a liberator at Blida-Joinville, 82; on the lumpenproletariat, 125–26; marriage, 14; medical thesis of, 15–16; on method, 67, 72–73, 79, 82; on Négritude, 15, 52, 56–57, 59, 81, 116, 121, 126, 130, 137, 146; on normality, 36, 59, 62, 65; not a black separatist, 131; not a philosophical idealist, 18; on ontological resistance, 15; pathologizing of, 9–10; penchant for martyrdom, 84; philosophical anthropology of, 31, 127, 129; plays of, 13–14; as a poet, 2; postcolonial critics of, 17; premonitions of early death, 57; on the present, 72; project of, 17; on psychopathology, 59–68, 140; on psychosexual retreat, 29; on questioned humanity, 127; relationship with his father, 30; relationship to Sartre, 131–32; relevance to feminist theory, 4; on Sartre, 56, 132; on sociogenesis, 2, 22, 24–25, 76, 85, 116, 138, 167n10; on speaking Creole, 26; on timeless truths, 18; treating the tortured and the torturers, 85; at the University of Lyon, 13–16, 21, 48, 53, 103; usage of “the Black” and “the White,” 154n10; violence, xi, 9, 45, 78, 114–32, 146; weeping, 58; wished to have been wrong, 80; zone of non-being, xii, 22, 69, 127, 137, 144
Fanon, Gabrielle, 13
Fanon, Joby, 11, 13, 21, 45, 57, 92, 142, 151n2, 152n5, 152n9, 154n11, 156n25, 162n25, 172n12, 176nn8–9
Fanon, Marie-Josèphe (Josie), 14, 33, 91, 92, 112, 136, 140, 151n3, 151n7, 152n13
Fanon-Mendès-France, Mireille, xviii, 5, 14, 79, 149n3, 152n4, 152n10, 153n21, 167n8
Fanon, Olivier, xviii, 14, 92, 140
Fanon Studies, 3–6, 150nn5–6, 153n21
fascist(s), 12, 102
The Father, 34, 44, 64, 145
Feder, Ellen, xviii
feminine, 66
feminist(s), 95, 100–1; critics, 61; issues, 146; movement(s), 101; theory, 4
fetish, 50, 74, 90, 121; methodological, 74
Ficek, Douglas, xviii, 172n11
Finch, Charles III, 168
fire, 21, 23
Firmin, Anténor, 158n44, 161n18
flesh, 25
Fondation Frantz Fanon / Frantz Fanon Foundation, 14, 149n3, 152n11, 167n8, 170n41, 173n19
Fontenot, Chester, 4, 29, 72–73, 155n21, 165n51
Fort de France (Martinique), 9, 13
Forum on Contemporary Theory (Baroda, India), xviii
France, xi–xvi, xviii, 2–3, 7, 9, 11–15, 33, 36, 44, 52, 63, 76, 78–85, 92, 96, 98, 104, 107, 111, 103, 130, 135, 142, 145n5, 150n3, 168n15; silence in the study of Fanon in, 150n5
fraternity, 21, 133
Frazier, E. Franklin, 122, 125, 174n25
freedom, xxi, 11, 20, 30–31, 55, 69–70, 84, 91, 97, 101, 121–22, 131, 140–41, 158n43, 164n43; compared with liberty, 96–97, 122
Freire, Paulo, 95
Friday (Robinson Crusoe character), 27
Friedreich’s disease, 15–16
Freud, Anna, 2, 32
Freud, Sigmund, xiii, 5, 80, 154n8, 167n10
Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), 82–85, 92–111, 123, 131, 135–36
Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 4, 9, 17, 151n1
Gaul(s), the, 64
Gautier, Philippe, 149n1
Geismar, Peter, 3, 81, 135, 151, 170n43, 176n1
Gendzier, Irene, 3, 170n43
Géromini, Charles, xiv
Ghana, 20, 106; Accra, 94
Gibson, Nigel E., xviii, 4, 96, 117, 150n6, 151n7, 153n21, 164n45, 167n14, 171n49, 172n11, 173n17
Gilroy, Paul, 164n43
Glissant, Édouard, 165n55
Global South, 3, 101–12, 129–30
Gobineau, Arthur de, 54–55, 161n18, 161n22
Goldberg, David Theo, 168n23
Gooding-Williams, Robert, 159n3
Gordon, Jane Anna, 4, 73, 96, 153n21, 154n7, 155n12, 156n30, 166n56, 171n51, 173n18, 173n22, 174n24, 174nn28–29, 175n31, 175n33, 176n5
Gordon, Lewis R., xvii–xviii, 3, 5–6, 17, 150n3, 153n2, 153n3, 156n30, 157n38, 159n1, 160n10, 163n34, 165n45, 165n50, 168n22, 169n23, 169n26, 170n36, 171n49, 174nn28–29, 175n35, 176n5; on methodological fetishism, 74
Gottheil, F. M., 151n1
Gouvernement provisoire de la République algérienne (GPRA, Provisional Government of the Republic of Algeria), 93–94, 106–7, 110
Graham, Greg, xviii
Gramsci, Antonio, 125–26, 174n31, 175n32
Greece (ancient), 161n20
Grenada (in Spain), 136
Grimm, Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm, 41, 158n51
Grosfoguel, Ramón, xviii, 150n3, 170n36
Grove Press, 16
Guadeloupe, 11, 106
Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar, xviii, 175n35
Guillén Batista, Nicolás, xviii, 90
Guevara, Che, xi
Guthrie, Robert V., 160n9, 167n9
Guyana (French), 11, 149n2
Gyekye, Kwame, 20, 153n1
gypsy, 14, 58, 111
Haiti, 37, 157nn42–43
Haitian Revolution, 36, 157n42
Hall, Stuart, 9
Hansen, Emmanuel, 4, 111
Harlem Renaissance, 53
Harris, Leonard, xviii
Harris, Wilson, 165n55
hatred, xi, 34, 39, 41, 85, 128, 168n18; self-hatred, 10
Hayman, Ronald, 33, 132, 157n35, 176n39
heaven, 38–39, 149n3
Hegel, G. W. F., 2, 5, 18, 31, 38, 52, 56, 68–69, 115–16, 131, 160n10, 164nn43–45
hegemony, 93, 125
Heidegger, Martin, 5
hell, xii, xiii, 23, 127–28, 149n3, 154n11, 163n33
Hellenism, 54–55
Henry, Paget, xviii, 4, 21, 154n7
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 5
hip hop and rap, 89
Hispaniola, 36, 158n43
history, 2, 11, 13, 19, 22, 37–38, 50, 52, 63, 69, 81, 93, 98, 105, 111, 123–24, 134, 136, 160n10, 164n43, 168n15, 172n5
Hitler, Adolf, 11
Holden, Roberto, 108
Holland/The Netherlands, xviii, 119
homoeroticism, 63, 65–66
homophobia, 32, 63, 66, 100, 163n37; in The Crying Game, 66
homosexuality, 63–67, 100; “neurotic,” 64; “passive,” 67
Hook, Sidney, 3
hooks, bell, 163n37
Hope, Elizabeth A., and Tracey Nichols, 153n21
Hôpital de Saint-Alban, 79
Hourani, Albert, 168n18
Hughes, Langston, 90
humanism, 104, 175n33
human nature, 9, 55, 68–69
human reality / world, 24, 34, 69, 75, 116, 147
Hume, David, 161n22
humor, 10, 12, 52, 58–59, 90, 166n56
Hurston, Zora Neale, 90
hybridization, 39, 126, 129, 166n56
hypocrisy, 97, 119
Ibo/Igbo, 126, 155
idolatry, 20, 25, 128, 138, 166n56
illegitimacy, 137–39
image(s), 45, 53, 59, 83, 107–9, 134; self-image, 41, 56, 139–40
imago, 137, 139
imbeciles, 12, 23
imitation, xii, 6, 23, 27–28, 112, 138
incarceration, 84, 163n33
India, xviii, 89, 120
Indian(s), East, 9, 36, 113
indigenous peoples, 21, 31, 37, 82, 87, 93, 117, 126–28, 146, 159n6
Indochina, 82
Industrial Revolution, 120
Inquisition, 136
Institute for Caribbean Thought at UWI-Mona, xviii
Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery (The Netherlands), xviii
L’Internationale, 112
interpretation, 1, 10, 18, 45, 116, 133, 138, 142, 154n6
interraciality, 14, 35, 38–39, 67, 143–46, 164n38
intersubjectivity, 22, 25, 48, 114
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), xviii
intimacy, 57, 70, 88
Irele, F. Abiola, 53–54, 160n11, 160n13, 161n15, 161n17, 169n28
irrationalism, 72
irrationality, 52, 55, 67, 72
irreplaceability, 34, 157n38
Iselin, Oliver, 135–36
Israel, 11, 104, 142, 171n53; anti-Israel, 104–5; reprisal operations in the 1950s, 104
Israelite(s), 11
Ivory Coast, xii
Jamaica, xviii, 36, 163n32
James, C. L. R., xviii, 124, 154n7, 165n55, 174n27, 174n30
JanMohamed, Abdul, 4, 164n44, 170n42
Jarganath, Vashna, xviii
Jaspers, Karl, 2, 32, 73, 83, 163n35, 168n16
jazz, 89, 91, 131, 169n24, 169n26, 169n30
Jeanson, Francis, 16, 91–92, 96, 131, 153n18
Jew(s), xv, xvii, 14, 27–28, 33, 58, 170n36; in Algeria, 99, 104–5, 113, 136; view of sin, 154n12
jobs, 28, 121, 125, 129
Johnson, Devon, xviii
Jones, Donna V., 160n11
Judy, Ronald A.T., 22, 47, 154n9, 159n1
Julien, Isaac, 9, 17, 21, 81, 151n1, 167n11, 170n43
justice, 19, 89, 118, 141, 149n2, 175n34; injustice, 129
Kant, Immanuel, 5
Kar, Prafulla, xviii
Kelly, Robin D.G., 160n11
Kierkegaard, Søren, 2, 34, 62, 72, 88–89, 149n1, 165n49, 166n56, 169n25; on poetic misery, 88
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 69, 105, 124, 174n30
Kiros, Teodros, xviii
knowledge, 19, 22, 27, 49, 61, 103, 115, 128, 162n26
Kohut, Heinz, 41, 158n50
Kollontai, Alexandra, 146
Kompridis, Nikolas, xviii
Korea, 89
Kos, Matthew, xviii
Kuti, Fela, 155n17
Lacan, Jacques, 2, 5, 16, 33–34, 42, 44–45, 157n36
Lacaton, R., 83–85
Lacroix, Jen, 13
Lamming, George, 6, 85, 90, 168n19
language, xiii, 6, 15, 22, 24–29, 33, 48, 50, 59, 64, 100, 113, 134, 138; the promise of, 28
L’an V de la revolution algerienne (“Year V of the Algerian Revolution” and A Dying Colonialism), xii, 94–105, 106, 127, 130, 140, 151n7, 171n49
Lanzmann, Claude, 92, 111, 130, 132, 172n8
Lassalle, Ferdinand, xiii
Latin America, 4, 106, 157n40, 158n48, 175n35
laughter, 43, 52, 58–59, 70
law(s), xii, 39, 61, 111, 138, 172n5; outlaw, xi, 2, 67, 91, 118
law of participation, 15–16
Lazarus, Neil, 4
legitimacy, 20, 34, 39, 68, 84, 94, 114–15, 122–23, 126, 130, 132–33; illegitimacy, 23, 114, 137–39
Leibniz, Gottfried, 20
Léro, Etienne, and Thélus, 53, 170n40
lesbian(s), 66
Levtzion, Nehemia, and Jay Spaulding, 170n35
Levy, Lior, xviii
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 15–16
liberalism, 12, 20–21, 84, 104; French, 12; reformism in, 84
liberation, 4, 59, 81–82, 92, 94–97, 99, 101–3, 114, 119, 122, 127, 133, 135, 152n9, 164n42, 172n8, 172n12
limbo, 23
Lindon, Jérôme, xv
literary and cultural critic(s), 4–5, 13–14, 16–17, 54, 73
literary theory as theory, 17
Little, Tom, 169n34
Liverpool, 119
Locke, Brian, 164n39
look, the, 31
Lorcin, Patricia M.E., 168n15, 174n27
lord, 38, 40, 68–69, 103; female role, 164nn44–45; feudal, 133
Louis, Joe, 60
love, xiii–xix, 20, 30, 34–35, 38, 40, 42–44, 55, 77, 133, 138, 145–46; words of, 144
lover(s), 30, 34, 38, 40, 55, 69, 144–45
lumpenproletariat, 119–26, 149n2, 172n9, 173n22
Lumumba, Patrice, 9, 94
lynching(s), 84, 111, 152n8
Maart, Rozena, xviii
Macey, David, 3, 152n12, 162n31, 163n35
Ma Commère, 63–64
magic, 52, 103, 138–39, 144
Main Rouge (the Red Hand), 96, 142, 170n40
Malagasy, 15, 39, 44–45
Malcolm X. See X, Malcolm (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson, xviii, 4, 150n3, 174n27
Mali, 94, 110
mambo, 89
Mandela, Nelson, xvii
Manganyi, Noël, 4
Manicheanism, 55, 102, 114, 117
Manila, 120
Mannoni, Dominique-Octave, 44–45, 159nn57–58; colonial complex, 45
Manuellan, Marie-Jeanne, 92, 95
Manville, Marcel, 12, 92
Marable, Manning, 163n37
Marielle, Andrée, 43–44
Martinican(s), 6–13, 26–36, 53, 64, 78, 80, 82, 85; fathers, 64; investment in French identity, 11, 26; soldiers, 12
Martinican Women’s Corps, 12
Martinique, 1, 8–18, 23, 28, 32, 36, 39, 52, 60, 63–64, 77–81, 93, 106–7, 162n30, 164n37; demographics of, 10, 36; department of France, 78; petit-bourgeois black population of, 13
masculine, 32, 66, 68, 156n30
Masolo, D. A., 17, 53, 160n14
Maspero, François, 96
maturity, 70
Marx, Karl, 2, 18, 25, 27, 115
Marxism, 12, 53, 56, 130–31; classical, 126; heretical, 119; orthodox 124; treating colonialism and racism as minor terms, 124
Marxist(s), 3, 17, 115–16, 119–20, 125, 131
matrilineality, 31
Mauritania, xiv
Mbembe, Achille, 4–5, 121, 149n3
Mbom, Clément, 78, 152n9, 167n5, 168n20, 170n37
McHugo, John, 168n18
Meagher, Tom, xviii
medical profession, 76–77, 99, 103; demographics of, 61
medicine, 13–14, 28, 76–79, 99; forensic, 13, 75, 77–78; general, 13
Memmi, Albert, 3, 9, 96, 151n1, 170n41
Meng, Heinrich, 166n2
Ménil, René, 53
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 2, 13, 25, 47, 73, 92, 155n15, 159n2
metaphysics, 54–55
method(s), 67, 72–74, 79, 80–82, 98, 165n52
Mignolo, Walter, xviii, 4, 150n3, 175n35
mirror(s), 29, 41–44, 56, 64, 134, 139, 145
miscegenation, 10, 14, 16, 35–38, 67, 93, 143–46, 158n18, 164n37, 172n7; anti-miscegenation, 39, 61, 111, 172n5; demographics of, 36, 61, 163n36; fear of, 10
misogyny, 29, 61
modernity, 87, 98, 115, 122
Moloi, Vincent, 152n8
Monahan, Michael, xviii, 4, 166n56
monster(s), 124, 143
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de, 27
Montréal, Canada, 80
Moors, the, 136
More, P. Mabogo, xviii, 4, 150n5, 160n11
Morocco, xiv
Morrison, Toni, 34–35, 90, 157n39
Moses, 11, 122
Mother, the, 64, 145
Moumié, Félix, 94
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, xi
Mudimbe, V. Y., 5
mulatto(es), 10, 26, 30, 35–42; fertility of, 37
music, xii, 55, 88–90, 166n56, 169nn24–26
Muslim(s), xiv, xv, 84, 93, 104, 136
mysticism, 47
narcissism, 10, 40–41, 47, 55–58, 61, 100, 134, 145, 158n50. See also mirror(s)
narcissistic rage, 41–42, 158n50
Nardal, Andrée and Paulette, 53
Nascimento, Abdias do, 90
Natanson, Maurice, 73, 165n53
nation, the, 100, 102, 111, 118, 122–23, 126–27, 142
national consciousness, 121–22, 127, 146, 174n24
National Institute for Health in Bethesda, Maryland, 111
nationalism, 121–22, 127, 175n33
native(s), the, 27–28, 33, 37, 133–34
Nazi(s), 11, 60
Le Nègre, passim, but see especially, 15, 21–71, 85, 91, 98, 100, 112–13, 137–39, 160n8; bon, 27; nègrephobia, 29, 60, 63, 66, 71; petit-nègre, 50, 159n6; as phobogenic object, 62; as sex, 62; usage defined, 22
Négritude, 15, 35, 52–57, 59, 81, 98, 116, 121, 126, 130, 137, 146, 160n11, 162n24; Sartrean, 130; surrealistic foundations of, 13, 53. See also Césaire, Aimé; Senghor, Léopold
Neuropsychiatric Day Clinic in Tunisia, 92, 104
neurotic(s), 30, 43, 52, 62–64, 70, 100
neutrality, 83
Newton, Huey, 3
Nguni, 129
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 18, 25, 30, 72, 115, 155n13, 166n26
Nigerian(s), 126, 155n17
“nigger,” 12, 22, 26, 36, 126, 155n19
Nissim-Sabat, Marilyn, xviii
Njoya, Wandia, xviii
Nkrumah, Kwame, 94
normality, 36, 59, 62, 65
normalization, 80
normativity, 66, 68, 136, 139
North Africa, 12, 30, 81, 91, 93, 103, 136, 142, 169n34
North African(s), 76, 81, 103
“North African Syndrome,” 14, 75–80, 103
Northup, Solomon, 162n28
Odyssey (Homer), xiii
Oedipal anxieties and complex, 10, 32–33, 63–64, 145
omnipotence, 19
omniscience, 19
ontogeny, 23
ontology, 15, 19, 26, 37, 49, 68, 73, 115. See also being
Onyame, 20
oppression, passim, but see especially, 13, 17, 23, 48, 69, 85, 88, 98, 115, 127, 140, 146
“Orphée noir” (“Black Orpheus”), 53–56, 112, 117, 130–33, 160n12
Orpheus and Eurydice, 55
Ossome, Lyn, xviii
Other, the, 49, 58, 69, 114, 127–28
Oto, Alejandro De, xviii, 4, 149n2, 173n12
Outlaw, Lucius T., xviii
Owens, Jesse, 60
Paladin Press, 16
Pan-African Congress, 94
Paris (France), xv, 11, 13–14, 26, 35, 42, 53–57, 80–85, 91, 133, 152n4, 164n37; Parisianism, 26, 30, 133
patient(s), xiv, 15–16, 34, 45, 59, 61, 76–82, 93, 103, 110; demographics of, 61, 162n31
patois, 26
patriarchy, 30–34, 43; family-type, 31
Pavlovian dog, 49
peasants, 119–20, 125–26
Peau noire, masques blancs (“Black Skin, White Masks”), xii–xiii, xv, 15–18, 20–81, 85–86, 90–92, 97, 99–100, 112, 125, 130–31, 134, 137, 140, 146, 151n7; affinities with Dante’s Inferno, 154n11; affinities with Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, 166n56; affinities with Firmin’s Equality of the Races, 161n17; as a new kind of text and writing, xiii, 73–74; originally proposed as Fanon’s doctoral thesis, 15; publication history of, 16. See also Fanon, Frantz Omar
pederast, 63–64
penis, 34, 59; of black males, 45, 60, 145
people, the, 36, 45, 87, 102, 104, 117–19, 124–27, 141, 147, 168n18
personalism, 13
Persram, Nalini, 154n7
pessimism, 72
Pétain, Marshal, 11
petrification, 114, 127, 146, 172n11
phallic, 34
phenomenology, 47, 68, 73, 98, 101, 115, 163n35, 165n52; Africana, 154n7; existential, 2, 25, 72–73; Fanonian, 73, 98; irrealization in, 72; transcendental ego in, 73
Philadelphia, xvii
philosophy, passim, but see especially, xiv, xvii–xviii, 3–5, 13–14, 32, 44, 47, 52, 55, 62, 69, 71, 89, 150n3
Philosophy Born of Struggle, xviii
phylogeny, 23
physician(s), xiv, 4, 9, 76–79, 81–82, 95, 103, 110–11, 136. See also medical profession
Pieterse, Jan Nederveen, 159n7
Pirelli, Viovanni, 95
Pithouse, Richard, xviii, 4
Plato’s Academy, 161n20
Pluto Press, 16
Poland, 131
police, the, xvi, 40, 49, 83, 104, 117–18
political theory, passim, but see especially, 3, 17
politics, xi, 1, 12–14, 17, 112, 116, 119; conservative, 12; psycho-politics, 82; of purity, 166n56; radical, 12; revolutionary, 81
Pontecorvo, Gillo, xiv
Pontorson, Normandy, 81
pornography, 66
postcolony, the, 121, 125
Postel, Jacques, 103, 171n50
postracialism, 18
Pottier, Eugène Edine, 112–13
Praeg, Leonhard, 174n28, 175n35
praxis, 3
prayer, 70, 140, 142
Présence Africaine, 28, 36, 54
primitivism, xiv, 31, 67, 87, 128, 146
problem, being a, 5, 21–22, 33–34, 45–46, 66, 121–22, 126, 144, 153n6
progress, 87, 115
proletariat, 26, 56, 112, 119–26, 130, 173n22; subproletariat, 120
Promised Land, 11
propaganda, 94, 107, 123
property, 31, 121
prophecy, 7, 9
Providence (Rhode Island), xvii
psychiatry, 6, 13–14, 75, 84, 104, 144, 167n14
psychoanalysis, 10, 16, 24, 31, 58, 62, 67, 68, 70–71, 79, 99–100, 138, 145; Freudian, 21, 170n42; investment(s), 170n42; Lacanian, 33–34, 44–45; semiological, 33, 71
psychology, 4, 6, 15, 44, 59, 68, 72, 163n35; abnormal, 59–68
psychosomatic illness, 76
psychotic(s), 34, 62, 70
Puerto Rico, 37, 39
Québec City, Canada, 80
Quirk, Joel and Darshan Vigneswaran, 173n22
Rabaka, Reiland, 4–5, 153n21, 162n24, 164n45, 175n37
race(s), passim, but see especially, xii, 6–7, 12, 20–24, 42–44, 50, 61–62, 66, 68, 78, 83, 85–86, 122; biracial, 9, 26; black scholars on, 6; etymology of, 136; evasions of, 6; in terms of gender, 32–33, 39, 129, 136, 162n31, 163n35, 168n18; secretions of, 55
racism, passism, but see especially, 45, 52–55, 60–61, 69, 71, 85–93, 97, 111–14, 121–34, 136–38, 144–46, 153n3, 154n11; antiblack, xii, 2, 11, 15, 18, 22, 24, 35, 56, 93; antiracist, 30; cultural, 86; as a normative feature of racist society, 85; scientific, 52, 160n9
racist rationality, 20, 86
racist society, 7, 39, 57, 85–86, 116, 145
radicalism, 12–13
radio, the, 102
rape, 63, 76, 79–80, 100, 163n33; in Pulp Fiction, 66
Rastafari, xvii
raté de père, 24, 32
rationality, 2, 20, 67, 85–86, 116; problematic, 2; Western, 72; white, 72
Razi Hospital in Manouba, Tunisia, 92
reality, xix, 8–11, 18–28, 32–41, 45, 47, 49, 54, 56–59, 65, 71–74, 75–76, 80–87, 90–91, 100, 117, 118, 125–27, 130, 138–39; human, 14, 34, 75; lived-reality, 21, 87, 100–1, 120, 139; material, 71, 128; political, 112; principle, 26, 35, 56–57, 130
reason, 2, 13, 19, 24, 50, 52–65, 72, 103–4, 115–19, 130–34; black, 24, 57; incompleteness of, 116, 120, 130; white, 130, 133
reciprocity, 144, 149
recognition, 24–70, 81–84, 90, 134, 138; dialectics of, 31
relationality, 31, 33
relativism, 86, 91, 130
Renan, Ernest, 170n36
Renault, Matthieu, xviii, 5, 30, 67, 150, 153n21, 156n26, 157n34, 164n42
resistance, 15, 28, 52–53, 56, 71, 93, 127, 130, 172n8; semiotic, 28
Résistance Algérienne, 93
revolution, xiv–xvi, 9–13, 18, 36, 94–105, 112–13, 146–47; counterrevolutionary, 18, 117; imperfect, 98; revolutionaries, xi, 1, 3, 9–15, 17–18, 113–16, 125; as a science of inevitable struggles, 124
Reynoso, Julissa, 158n43
Rhodes University (South Africa), vii
rhythm, 54–55
rights, 21, 82, 111, 118
Roberts, Neil, xviii, 4, 158n43
Robinson, Cedric, 4, 17–18, 153n18
Rocchi, Jean-Paul, xviii, 5, 154n12
Roumain, Jacques, 112, 172n9
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 5, 67, 104, 121, 153n21, 166n56, 171n51, 174n24
Russia, 89
Said, Edward, xiii, 4
Saint-Alban sur Limagnole, 79, 110, 167n8
Salan, Raoul, 82
Salomon, Michel, 65, 164n38
salsa, 89
Sanin Restrepo, Ricardo, xviii
Santo Domingo, 37
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 2, 5, 15, 25, 31–33, 72–73, 82–83, 92, 97–98, 112, 116–17, 151n7, 155n15, 156n29, 156n32, 160n12, 162nn23–24, 165n50, 171n53, 175nn36–37; relationship with Fanon, 124, 130–35; as the White Reaper, 134
savage(s), 32, 44, 50, 55, 60, 64
scarcity, 114, 121, 129
schema(s), 23, 32, 37, 69, 137; epidermal, 7, 48, 14; historical-racial, 139–40; homosexual, 63
schizophrenic(s), 21
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 18
Schwarz-Bart, Simone, 36
scientism, 84
Scott, Jacqueline Renee, and Todd Franklin, 169n26
secularism, 20, 98–99, 103–4, 131
segregation (American), xv, 111, 117
Seine (river), xvi
Sekyi-Otu, Ato, 4, 96, 115–16, 164n45, 168n21, 173n12, 173n14, 175nn31–32
self, 26, 114–18, 121, 126–28; as standard, 23, 138–39, 163n35
semiotic(s), 14, 24, 33, 71, 130, 154n10; play, 26, 28–29
Semite(s), 33, 93, 104
Senghor, Léopold, 2, 15, 52–57, 81, 85, 150n11, 152n15, 160nn11–12, 161n19, 162n23
seriousness, 21, 26, 58, 71, 95, 99, 163n34
Sertima, Ivan Van, 170n35
Sesanker, Colena, xviii
settler(s), 82–83, 100–4, 117–18
sex, 10, 24, 61, 102, 145, 164n37
sexual cripple, 21
sexuality, 63–67, 129, 144; bisexuality, 67; colonization of, 65–67; “pathological,” 67
Shakespeare, William, 27
Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean, 29, 35, 150n4, 155n23, 157n41, 160n11, 161n14, 165n45, 171n45
Silva, Rosemere Da, xviii
sin, 23, 60; Jewish concept of, 154n12
slave(s), xiv, 9, 11, 30, 37, 40, 49–50, 58, 88–89, 113–14, 119, 163n28; haratins, xiv
slave trade(s), xii, 119
slavery, xviii, 7, 39, 87, 93, 102, 125; post-slavery, 125
“Snow White,” 41, 44, 63
Social Darwinism, 86; as a distortion of natural selection, 87
social work, 61, 162n31
social world, 22–25, 49, 68, 102, 114
sociogeny, 2, 22, 24–25, 76, 85, 116, 138, 167n10
soldier(s), xv, 11–12, 39, 44–45, 82, 101, 123, 142; black, 12; of color in colonial wars, 82; Senegalese, 12, 60, 159n6
Solomon, Shaleem, xvii
son(s), 31
Sorbonne, the, xv, 85, 122, 154n12
Sousa, Boaventura de, 4, 175n35
South Africa, xvii–xviii, 7, 111, 150n3, 150n5, 152n8, 160n11, 175n35
Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.), 2, 110–11, 131
Spanish Civil War, 79
standard(s), 5–6, 23–27, 31, 118–19, 124, 128, 136, 138
state(s), 94, 116–27, 146–47
Stern, E., 76, 166n2
Suàrez-Krabbe, Julia, 175n35
subjective life, 21–22, 48, 55–56, 64, 144, 146; intersubjective life, 25, 48, 114
subjectivity, 8, 117
Suez Canal, 104
Swahili, 129
swing, 89
symmetry, 29, 37, 66, 69; asymmetry, 67, 88, 103
Taïeb, Roger, 140, 142
Taíno(s), 37
Táíwò, Olúfmi, 155n20, 161n20, 173n16, 174n26
Taubira, Christiane, 149n2
Taylor, Jacqueline Sánchez, 163n32
tears, 59, 70
technology, 99, 102–3
teleological suspension(s), 128, 153n2
Temple, Shirley, 34
theodicy, 19–20, 39, 45, 128
theory, xi, xiii–xiv, 3–5, 15–17, 37, 50, 55, 71, 73, 82, 87, 89, 98 153n2, 160n10, 172n11; creolization or creolizing of, 4, 73, 128; dark side of, 89, 153n2; from the Global South, 130; purity in, 73; unified field, 17
therapeutic community, 80
therapy, 24, 59, 75–105; institutional, 29, 79
theriomorphism, 50
thingification, 144, 146
The Thinker, 59
Third World, xi, 3, 117, 119, 126; elites, 119, 125, 133
thought, passim, but see especially, xi, xiii, 1, 3, 7, 15, 17–27, 32–33, 70, 98, 112, 114, 129, 142, 153n2; Caribbean, 166n56; critical, 3–4; dark side of, 20, 74; decolonial, xiii; dialectical, 132; existential, 70, 155n18; political, 112; postcolonial, 129; the present of, 73; radical, 116; revolutionary social, 96, 126
Tibebu, Teshale, 160n10
torture, xv, 82–88, 92, 97, 132, 136
Tosquelles, François, 79–82, 167n8
Toulouse (France), xvii–xviii
Toynbee, Arnold, 169n24
tragedy, 27, 55, 115, 141
translation, 6, 16, 29, 150n6, 151n7
trauma, 11, 27, 123, 138, 147
Trujillo, Rafael, 36–37
truth, 2, 18, 21, 23, 41, 49, 59, 64, 105, 110, 118, 133, 153n4
Tucker, Wil and Eric, xviii
Tunisia, 2, 92–104, 110–11, 133, 142
tu-tu-ing, 12
ubuntu, 129, 175n35
uhuru, 129
underclass, 120
unemployment, 120, 125, 156n30
United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 149n3
United States, 2, 7, 9, 16, 53, 101, 135, 152n8, 163n36; hegemonic control over the Caribbean and Latin America, 106; middle class in, 122; racial issues in, 33, 97, 111, 122; Supreme Court, 111
universal, xii, 48, 56–57, 76, 89, 91, 104, 120–21, 128–30; false, 128; as an idol, 128
University of Chicago, 122
University of Connecticut, xvii–xviii
urbanization, 120
U.S.S.R. See Soviet Union
vagina, 61
Valéry, Paul, 25
value(s), 10, 20, 31, 34, 114–15, 119, 121, 123–25, 128–29; colonial, 31; indigenous, 146; material, 27, 31; patriarchal, 31; transvaluation of, 115; value-endowing words, 43; valuing of, 115
Veneuse, Jean, 43–44, 58, 71, 144–45
Venezuela, 120
Vergès, Françoise, 4, 9, 85
Vichy government, 11
Viet Cong, 82
Vietnam, 82, 120
Vietnam War, 82
villain(s), 32
violation, 118, 137
violence, xi, xv, 9, 45, 61, 78, 84, 100, 114–23, 131–33, 146–47, 154n11, 162n28, 174n28; domestic, 78; revolutionary, 116; sexual, 61, 100, 161n28
volontés, 53
waiting, xiii, 124, 146, 174n30
Walker, Chas, xviii
Watt, W. Montgomery, and Pierre Cachias, 168n18
Weber, Max, 5
Werden-Greenfield, Ariella, xviii
West, Cornel, 90
white(s), passim, but see especially, xi, 5–6, 10–12, 15–18, 21–33, 36–44, 47–50, 52, 54–64, 66–73, 78, 83, 86–87, 99–100, 103–4, 111–12, 116–17, 138, 144–46, 163n36; feminists, 95, 100; fetishizing blackness, 90–91; imago, 139; luxury of not having to wait, 124–25; minstrels, 137; reason, 130, 133; speech, 138; supremacy, 56, 86–97, 140; white-centrism, 128, 131; who listen to the blues, 88
whiteness, 23–24, 26, 30, 33, 35–45, 55, 57, 68, 87, 130, 138, 142; putting on, 27; speaking, 26; valorization of, 36; words of, 26
whitening, 38; blanquismo, 36
Woddis, Jack, 3, 173n21
women, passim, but see especially, xiv, 6, 12, 21–22, 29–42, 43–44, 55, 61–69, 97–104, 111, 140, 144–47, 154n8, 158n44, 162n31; in cinema, 66; Muslim, xiv. See also Algeria
Woolward, Keithley Philmore, 152n9, 172n12
words, 1–2, 5, 13, 26, 42, 48–49, 54, 70, 98, 130, 133, 142; of love, 34–35, 40, 43–44, 144; of redemption, 58; self-deceiving, 42; of whiteness, 26, 40–44
working class, 26, 121–22; non–working class, 121. See also proletariat
World War II, 11–13, 30, 54, 58, 80, 82, 91, 101, 106, 142
Worsley, Peter, 2, 4, 119, 121, 129, 149n2, 151n8, 169n28, 172n9, 173n11, 173n22
Wright, Richard, 2, 5–6, 32–33, 47, 85, 90, 157n34, 164n44
writer(s), xiii, 1–3, 17–19, 23, 33, 35–36, 53–54, 57, 82, 85, 94, 122, 137; existential question of, 72–73
writing, 72–74, 90, 112, 166n56
Wynter, Sylvia, xviii, 4, 150n3, 165n55
X, Malcolm (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), 9, 64, 163n37
Yvon, Bresson, 104
Zahar, Renate, 4
zone of nonbeing, xii, 22, 69, 105, 127, 137, 143