Psychoanalyst and social philosopher from Martinique (1925-1961) Wrote influential works: Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth Black Skin, White Masks (1952) Original text (translation): https://monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Fanon_Frantz_Black_Skin_White_Masks_1986.pdf Excellent summary: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/black-skin-white-masks/summary In order to understand racism, we must ask what “man” wants and what “the black man” wants Seeks to understand the relationship between white and black people Argues that both groups are trapped within their own racial identities Argues that psychoanalysis is a useful tool for understanding the black experience Through analysis, it is possible to “destroy” the enormous psychological complex that has developed as a result of colonialism Concludes with an appeal to open-mindeness, and he will always be “a man who questions” Chapter 1: The Black Man and Language Describes experience of black Antilleans and become “whiter” via assimilation They return to homeland and are treated as superior, encouraging them to act haughtily Black people try to “prove” intelligence to whites but intelligence alone “never saved anybody” White people speaking to black people in pidgin is a subtle way to remind them of the colonial order White people fear educated black people, such as those that read Karl Marx Notes that some say Aime Cesaire has more skillful command of French than any white Frenchman Cesaire was the founder of the Negritude movement If true, shouldn’t be surprising, since people of French colonies are just as “French” as white Frenchmen Chapter 2: The Woman of Color and the White Man Examines Mayotte Capecia’s autobiography I Am a Martinician Woman About a black women obsesseds with marrying a white man Mayotte was taught to believe they can “save” their race by making themselves whiter Disapproves of it because it advocates for “unhealthy behavior” Looks at Abdoulaye Sadji’s novel Nini Biracial Sengalese woman rejects black man’s advances b/c she wants to marry a white person Argues that Nini shows how black women internalize racist ideas Chapter 3: The Man of Color and the White Woman Examines Rene Maran’s autobiography A Man Like Any Other About a black Antillean named Jean Veneuse who lives in Bordeaux, France Jean is in love with a white woman, and his white friends approve if he renounces his blackness Fanon argues black men want to “dominate a European woman” Argues that Jean suffers from abandonment neurosis, as described by Germaine Guex Chapter 4: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized Analyzes Octave Mannoni’s The Psychology of Colonization, which analyzes the psychological relationship between colonizer and colonized Fanon rejects Mannoni’s claim that inferority complex of colonized people originates from childhood–instead originates from colonization Examines how different ethnicities/nationalities/religions are encouraged to feel superior to each other Rejects idea that best sides of European culture are not responsible for colonialism-instead, all of Europe is implicit in colonial violence Rejects claim that Malagasy people didn’t have sense of identity prior to colonization-colonization destroyed their sense of identity Chapter 5: The Fact of Blackness Fanon describes sitting on a train and hearing a white child exclaim: “Look!

A list of the prime ministers of the UK. Source: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Prime-Ministers-of-Britain/ and various sources for more detailed information on each prime minister. This list is group by the monarch that the prime minister began under. George I Sir Robert Walpole Party: Whig Dates: 1721-42 Restored confidence in the country following the South Sea Bubble financial crash of 1720. Dominated the political scene during the reigns of George I and George II.

This page is a working list of every important industrial process that shows up in Quizbowl. Focus is given to processes that produce specific compounds or isolate specific elements. Mostly copied from my old notes for Science Bowl, with a few additions and heavy reformatting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_processes This page is organized by the compound (or general objective) that each process produces. Within each compound, the list of processes is listed from most modern to most outdated.

Canadian media theorist (1911-1980) Coined the terms “the medium is the message” and “global village” The Gutenburg Galaxy (1962) Full title: The Gutenburg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man Popularized the term global village, the idea that mass communication allows a village-like mindset to apply to the entire world Popularized the term Gutenburg Galaxy, the accumulated body of recorded works of human art/knowledge, especially books Unusual book design: Develops a mosaic or field approach to its problems Mosaic image would reveal “causal operations in history” Main body of the book consists of 107 short “chapters,” many of which are 1-3 pages in length (fits the picture of a mosaic) Book can also be understood as way fo describing 4 epochs of history: Oral tribe culture Manuscript culture Gutenberg galaxy Electronic age Understanding Media (1964) Full title: Understanding Media: The Extension of Man

Polish-American Gestalt psychologist (1907-1996) Best-known for work on conformity Conformity Experiments Asch conformity experiment. Source: simplypsychology.org Perhaps his best-known experiment was the Asch conformity experiment. One “real” participant and other “confederates” (sometimes called stooges) were asked to choose which of 3 lines was the same length as a reference line. Confederates gave the wrong answer, and Asch found that majority of the time the real participant conformed to the wrong answer, at least part of the time.

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