The Concept of the Black Subject in Fanon

In this article, Blackness is examined in relation to the conception of the subject. From this perspective, Frantz Fanon’s subjectivity is a rallying point of critique to account for the ways in which such a subject is positioned in the existential realm of anti-Blackness. This calls for the ways in which the Black subject should be understood from its existential reality of subjection. The demand of the Black subject to be free from subjection essentially means that Blackness should tenaciously militate for liberation. This is the existential necessity in that the Black subject will move from the existential condition of dehumanization and to what Fanon calls new humanism.