Black Skin, White Masks

This is mainly interesting as a foundational text to look at later writers. The idea that a Black child in a primarily Black space reads European books and sees himself in the white hero, only “becoming” Black after travelling to Europe and being seen as such there, as well as the ways racial hierarchies are artificially constructed are articulated in a compelling way, but the content is so dense (there is a lot of random poetry analysis) or dated (Freudian analysis, misogyny, homophobia) that it's hard to recommend to a “lay” reader.