Peau Noire, Masques Blancs vs The Lonely Crowd: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Ethnopsychology, Psychology
Peau Noire, Masques Blancs
“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.”
Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche.…
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The Lonely Crowd
The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark study of American…
The verdict
- Readers rate Peau Noire, Masques Blancs highest: Peau Noire, Masques Blancs 4.3 · The Lonely Crowd 3.8.
- Peau Noire, Masques Blancs is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for The Lonely Crowd.
- Peau Noire, Masques Blancs has the widest readership — 20434 ratings behind its score.
- The Lonely Crowd reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 1261 times.
Scores by source
| Peau Noire, Masques Blancs | The Lonely Crowd | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (20434) | — |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (2) | 3.0 (1) |
Reception
| Peau Noire, Masques Blancs | The Lonely Crowd | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 20434 | 5 |
| Editions | 52 | 67 |
| Citations | 807 | 1261 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1075 |
| Pages | 192 | 364 |