Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Racialization: Implications for Globalization
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This article investigates Frantz Fanon’s theory of race and racism. Three constitutive elements of Frantz Fanon’s racial theory are explored—race as historically situated, race as culturally maintained, and racial constructions as embedded in human ontology. It is argued that Fanon’s work provides a starting point for bringing conversations of race and racism into globalization theories in ways that create space and possibility for human emancipation under twentyfirst century globalization.
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