 Together with Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", it received wider attention during cultural upheavals starting in the 1960s, in the United States as well as former colonial countries in the Caribbean and Africa.It is considered an important anti-colonial, anti-racist, and Afro-pessimist work in Anglophone countries.But in Francophone countries, the book is ranked as a relatively minor Fanon work in comparison to his later, more radical works.