(1) Reading Fanon with Lacan: Derek Hook interviews Sinan Richards : Mirror stage in Lacan & Fanon

Sinan sets out a careful chronology of dates pertaining to Lacan's theorization of the mirror stage before turning to Fanon's discussion of this theory in a famous footnote in his 'Black Skin White Masks'. We discuss how 'the Fanonian mirror stage' is linked to questions of desire (and the desire of the Other) in the colonial context and note also the relevance of Kenneth and Mamie Clark's doll studies regards imaginary identifications with whiteness. Fanon's theory of epidermalization is mentioned and we also question what two forms of whiteness might be said to occur in Fanon's conceptualization of the colonial mirror phase.