Drawing on a range of approaches addressed in the module, and in particular the writings of Fanon, discuss issues of difference and identity as articulated in either Palcy's Rue Cases Nègres or Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers.
             'It was hate; I was hated, despised, detested, not by the neighbor across the street or my cousin on my mother's side, but by an entire race. I was up against something unreasoned'. (Fanon 1986: 118). Whilst looking at issues of difference, identity, authenticity and language I will turn to Frantz Fanon's critical work, Black skin White Masks (BSWM) and Eugene Palcy's movie Rue Cases Nègres to try and explain the effects of racism and colonization reflected in the black subject's consciousness.
             Frantz Fanon, an outstanding contributor to post-colonial studies, observes and criticizes the mistreatment of black people in Martinique and Algeria, countries ruled at that time by French colonizers. BSWM represents Fanon's personal experience of a young black child educated to think like a white person in a white world. Following his encounters with French racism, Fanon felt the need to resist.
             In Black Skin White Masks, Fanon defines the colonial relationship as the psychological non-recognition of the subjectivity of the colonized. He explores the class collision and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of a new country's national consciousness. He examines race prejudices as a philosopher and psychologist however he acknowledges economic and social realities. He turns to the dominant white culture and argues that even though the colonized are usually more numerous than the dominant, the latter create the inferiority of the natives.
             He sustains that the white race's stability depends on its binary opposition, the black race and that both were born during colonization. 'For not only must the black man be black...