Czarny ma tylko jeden los. I jest on biały – analiza problemów tożsamościowych społeczeństw afrykańskich w stosunkach międzynarodowych

Abstract

“BLACK HAS ONLY ONE FATE. AND IT IS WHITE” – AN ANALYSIS OF THE IDENTITY PROBLEMS OF AFRICAN SOCIETIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

“Black Skin, White Masks” – the famous work of Franz Fanon is an elaborate analysis of the “Black-White” relationship, with the assumed emancipatory goal of releasing the coloured man from himself. His “black soul” is a white man’s social construct and it is impossible to get rid of it due to economic and political conditions and cultural subordination. Subsequent generations reproduced and/or superseded the problems of colonial subordination in various ways, but there is no doubt that identity attitudes still continue shaping the relationship between post-colonial communities and Western countries. I present the conclusions from Fanon’s reflections against the background of a short introduction to the issue of collective identities and the importance of their analysis for the study of international relations. The research goal of the article is to show how civilisational subordination disrupted the shaping of identity processes in colonised communities at the individual and collective level.