The The De-alienation of the Black Person:

Reflections on Education in Dialogue with Frantz Fanon

Abstract

This article contemplates a proposal for dialogue with the ideas of Frantz Fanon, aiming to think about education in our time. Based mainly on the book Black Skin, White Masks - a classic on the sociogenesis of colonization, black identity as white alterity, inferiority and superiority complexes, material conditions and processes of subjectivization of racialization - and other important authors in studies on racism and education, we intend to reflect on how the notion of alienation in Fanon allows us to develop an understanding of the processes of dehumanization involved in colonialism. Language, identity and the production of the subject in the colonial and neocolonial context are unavoidable categories for developing a diagnosis of education in the contemporary context, considering the current cycle of capitalism. We recover, in the author's elaboration, the notion of double alienation of black people to elucidate the diagnosis, as well as the way in which he recovers the notion of dialectical praxis to guide the possibilities of overcoming the racist-colonial-modern structure, towards a radical humanism.