Black Skin, White Masks

One thing that I found extremely interesting about Franz Fanon is how he got his start to write his famous work "Black Skin, White Masks". Originally, he wrote the book and submitted is to serve as his thesis at Lyon. It turned out to get rejected, and this led him to publish the book, which differed from it's original title, "The Disalienation Of A Black Man". Essentially, the piece talks about how the black man seems to be dominated in a white culture, and how this somehow influences him to adapt to the cultures of the white men, possibly out of sheer fear.  This seems like a pretty big statement, and I am not totally sure that I agree with it. It seems hard to believe now, at least in our society today, that such a powerful, and to be honest, what seems like a bit of a drastic theory. It seems that Fanon sees no power in his race, and that because of this, they have had to turn to other customs in order to survive. I think that it is something that must be experienced on an emotional level to understand, and so it is hard to really have an opinion, but in terms of what I know, which is very little, I find a theory of this magnitude very difficult to accept.