The Psychology of Oppression and Essays on the Ideas of Frantz Fanon is a collection to two previously published essays on the psychology of self-hatred among African people. The first is "African Self-Oppression" from Essays Towards Restoring the African Mind and the second essay is "Independence or Psychological Colonization in the French Caribbean". Both of these essays build on the ideas presented in Frantz Fanon's work, Black Skin, White Masks .