Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside *Orientalism* and *The Autobiography of Malcolm X.* *The Wretched of the Earth* is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, *The Wretched of the Earth* has had major impacts on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consiousness movements around the world. This new translation updates its language for a new generation of readers and its lessons are more vital now than ever."