The wretched of the earth / by Frantz Fanon; preface by by Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Constance Farrington.

Originally published: Les damnés de la terre; Paris : François Maspero éditeur, 1961. "A negro psychoanalyst's study of the problems of racism & colonialism in the world today"--Jacket.

Cont.: Concerning violence -- Spontaneity : its strength and weakness -- The pitfalls of national consciousness -- On national culture -- Colonial war and mental disorders.

"Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how the fight for freedom must be etc...