![]() ![]() He became more committed to the cause and later resigned from his post and became a full-time organiser and writer for the FLN. These were the events which led to Frantz’ final stage of political radicalism, as the result he began secretly helping the rebel group called Front de la Liberation Nationale (FLN). The racial discrimination continued, and in 1954 the Algerians rebelled against French repression in response the French government used physical abuse against its subjects. He applied to numerous institutions and was finally considered at the Blida-Joinville hospital in Algiers in Algeria. He wanted to serve as director of any psychiatric ward in the French-speaking world. He got his license, through training with the famous Spanish humanist psychiatrist Francois Tosquelles. Frantz wrote a thesis titled ‘The Desalination of the Black Man’ which was rejected, but it formed the foundation of his book titled ‘Black Skin, White Masks’. He also had a daughter from a previous relationship. It is where he met and married Marie Josephe Duble, a young White French woman of Corsican and Gypsy heritage, with whom he had a son. He had an interest in wide range of readings such the works of Mauss, Heidegger, Levi-Strauss, Marx, Heggel, Lenin and Leon Trotsky, he also completed two plays, Loeil se Noie and Les Mains Parallels. During his studies he attended Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s lectures in philosophy. While serving in the army he managed to secure support for education in Psychiatry in Lyon, France. While serving for the French military he experienced racism as he noticed that white French women refused to dance with Black soldiers who fought to free them from Nazi occupation. For his service he was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French equivalent of the Purple Heart for bravery. While fighting for the French, he spent time in French-colonised Algeria. From there he went to France to join the Free French Forces who were resisting the Nazi forces of Germany. It is said that Frantz did not had a good relationship with his mother, he felt alienated based on his skin colour.Īt the age of 17 he sneaked away from home and sailed to the Caribbean Islandof Dominica, for adventure. Frantz was the least favourite of his mother’s children as he was considered she saw him as a troublemaker. Frantz resembled his father’s skin colour as he was the darkest child in the family. Her mother’s parents disapproved of her marriage to a man of darker colour. His mother was of the Alsatian origin, Frantz name reflected the Alsatian past. To look after her family she opened a shop selling drapery and hardware. He lost his father Casimir in 1947, who was a customs inspector his mother Eleanore Medelice resumed the responsibilities of the head of the house. ![]() His family were descendants of African slaves who had been brought to the Caribbean to work on the sugar plantations. He was fifth of the eight children his family belonged to the middle class. He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique.
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