Few authors have had as profound an impact on black identity as Frantz Fanon, whose work has exerted a powerful influence on the civil rights movement, anti-colonial movements and black consciousness movements around the world, from Black Power to the Black Panthers to much of the national liberation movements in Africa and Asia. Racism and colonialism still show their weight on the contemporary world, and their analysis and intellectual criticism depends to a large extent on the quality of the revolutionary political action models of the future. This cult book represents an acute analysis of the formation of black identity in a white society, that is, of how racism defines the modes of recognition, interrelationship and construction of individual and social personality in postcolonial societies. It also includes articles by Samir Amin, Judith Butler, Lewis R. Gordon, Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Walter Mignolo, Immanuel Wallerstein and Sylvia Wynter, which brilliantly crumble Fanon's text exposing all his richness, complexity and intellectual sophistication.