pPhilosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet...although difficult to categorize, Frantz Fanon 1925-1961 is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and one of our most powerful writers on race and revolution.ppThe book opens with a biography, following Fanon from his birthplace of Martinique through combat in World War II and education in France, to his heroic involvement in the fights for Algerian independence and African decolonization. After a brief discussion of Fanon's political and cultural influences, the main section of the book covers the three principal stages of Fanon's thought pullithe search for black identity, as presented in iBlack Skin, White Masksi, Fanon's stunning diagnosis of racismlilithe struggle against colonialism, as explained in A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution, essays centering on Algeria's war of independencelilithe process of decolonization, as analyzed in The Wretched of the Earth, the book that extended