Domestic Imperialism

The Reversal of Fanon

Authors

  • J. Wolfe Harris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/S.12.1.64-73

Keywords:

philosophy, imperialism, fanon

Abstract

Frantz Fanon’s works have been invaluable in the analysis of colonies and the colonized subject’s mentality therein, but an analysis of the colonial power itself has been largely left to the wayside. The aim of this paper is to explicate a key element of Fanon’s theoretical framework, the metropolis/periphery dichotomy, then, using the writings of Huey P. Newton and Stokely Carmichael, among others, show its reversal within the colonial power. I will analyze this reversal in three ways: first, the reversal of the relationship between, and the roles of, the metropolis and periphery; second, the role of police and the differences between the colonial police and the police within the colonial power; and third, the modified role of prisons within the colonial power.

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Published

2019-09-25

How to Cite

Harris, J. W. (2019). Domestic Imperialism: The Reversal of Fanon. Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, 12(1), 64–73. https://doi.org/10.33043/S.12.1.64-73

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