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¶ ‘The Fact of Blackness’ or ‘The Lived Experience of the Black Man’? What a translation choice did to Fanon

Rereading Black Skin, White Masks (1952), I noticed something I'd missed for years: the fifth chapter has two different titles in English. Fanon's French is ‘L'expérience vécue du Noir’. The 1967 translation called it ‘The Fact of Blackness’. The 2008 translation calls…