In critiquing occupation and global imperialism, "brown skin, white masks" serves as a model.

Abstract

Hamid Dabbashi's book, *Brown Skin, White Masks*, is considered one of the most important critical works on American imperialism. Drawing on Frantz Fanon's theory, the book exposes the Orientalist narrative of European colonialism in Africa.

Dabbashi, a scholar and historian, holds the Hagop Kevorkian Chair in Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City—the oldest and most prestigious chair in the field of Iranian studies. He sees in *Brown Skin, White Masks* a new version of the concept of "Black," fueled by a massive ideological push through the writings of Bernard Lewis, who considered Islam a threat to Western ideals. This was followed by Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" and Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," all within the framework of the New World Order. The outlines of this order became clearer after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the replacement of communism with Islamism as a new adversary of the West, or the manufacturing of Islam and the fear of it through the use of "local informants."