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Irrational feelings of dread, fear, and hate in a subject whose threat is often exaggerated or "phobogenesis" - one of the psychological terms explored in Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks, which sets out the way black people have been affected by colonial subjugation. Matthew Sweet, Tariq Ali, New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza and Kehinde Andrews re-read Fanon's arguments and look at the influence of his thinking outlined in his books Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

Tariq Ali is a journalist, historian, and filmmaker whose books include The Islam Quintet, The Extreme Centre and The Dilemmas of Lenin.
You can hear Rana Mitter in an extended Free Thinking conversation with him /programmes/b09qgt57

Kehinde Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. His books include The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World and Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century.
You can find him in conversation at the Free Thinking Festival 2019 discussing the emotions of now /programmes/m00040wd anger in politics /programmes/m0003t1t and looking at Black British History with Bernadine Evaristo, Miranda Kaufmann and Keith Piper /programmes/b081tkr9

Alezandra Reza is a 91Èȱ¬ and Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker who studies at the University of Oxford. You can hear her in a Free Thinking discussion about Aimé Césaire /programmes/m000nmxf

Producer: Luke Mulhall

IMAGE: The Algerian War In Algiers, Algeria In 1961
CREDIT: Dominique BERRETTY/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images