by Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961) is a psychiatric and psychologic analysis of the dehumanising effects of colonization upon the individual man and woman, and the nation, from which derive the broader social, cultural, and political implications inherent to establishing a social movement for the decolonization of being and of peoples. The book presents thorough critiques of nationalism and of imperialism, a discussion of personal and societal mental health, a discussion of how the use of language (vocabulary) is applied to the establishment of imperialist identities, such as colonizer and colonized, and a discussion of role of the intellectual in a revolution.