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 populace 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. In contrast
             Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower middle class
             family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial
             education sees the technologies of control as being the white
             colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist
             thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future
             together. But quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed
             by the gaze of metropolitan racism both in France and in the colonized
             world. He responded to the shattering of his neo-colonial 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 Disalienation of Blacks." Fanon defined the colonial relationship
             as one of the non recognition of the colonized's humanity, his
             subjecthood, by the colonizer in order to justify his exploitation.
             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 ...