Brothers In Misfortune: Blackness, Jewishness, and the Fetish in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

Examining Frantz Fanon’s references to religion and fetishism in Black Skins, White Masks, this paper argues that religion is central to his conception of the human in Western colonial discourse, and to his conception of the Black as what the human excludes. Drawing on his analysis of Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew, it shows how the role of religion in articulating Blackness is negotiated through comparison to Jewishness as another fetishized object of European modernity.