The Martinique-born psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon set a similar goal—psychiatry had to be practiced with a “brutal awareness of the social and economic realities,”66 he wrote. But most of Fanon’s analysis was focused on men. Some “may ask what we have to say about the woman of color,”67 he acknowledged in his 1952 book, Black Skin, White Masks, about how racism and colonialism affect the male psyche. Whether because of a lack of studies or because the literature was marred by stereotypes, his answer was straightforward: “I know nothing about her.”68
