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On Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, ch. 7, B. "The Negro and Hegel." Hegel describes the abstract attainment of self-consciousness through recognition, but is this actually how it works in real slavery and its aftermath?

Follow along: monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Fanon_Frantz_Black_Skin_White_Masks_1986.pdf, p. 216 (PDF p. 234).

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