Fanon's book, "The Wretched Of The Earth", like Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" question the basic assumptions that underlie society. Both books writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both authors see as the technologies that keep the public in line. Foucault coming out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons, family, mental institutions, and other institutions and cultural traits of French society. Frantz Fanon, born in Martinique into a lower middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a higher learning of education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was an assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. Quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the look of metropolitan racism both in France and in the colonized world. He responded to the shattering of his identity, his white mask, with his first book, Black Skin, White Mask, written in 1952 at the age of twenty-seven and originally titled "An Essay for the Desalination of Blacks." Fanon defined the colonial relationship, as one of the non recognition of the colonizer's humanity, his subject hood, by the colonizer in order to justify his development. Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The Earth" views the colonized world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's questioning of a disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the white world employs to use the colonized. He questions whether the colonized world should copy the west or
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