The Frantz Fanon Collection began in 1970 when Countway Library partnered with donors and renowned Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. to gather materials on Black psychology. The collection honors Frantz Fanon, a West Indian psychiatrist and decolonialist philosopher who argued that racism and colonialism created psychological complexes in Black people and other oppressed or marginalized communities.
Today, the collection includes over 300 books, primarily nonfiction and medical resources, that offer valuable historical perspective on an era when racism manifested in extreme, often state-sanctioned violence.
The Fanon Collection can be found at the back of the General Collection stacks on Lower Level 2 of Countway Library. You can browse the collection in HOLLIS using the following link: Countway Fanon Collection.