Colonialism yesterday and today

Abstract

The Colonizer and the Colonized is a non-fiction book by Albert Memmi, published in French in 1957. In Brazil, it was translated by Brazilian philosopher and politician Roland Corbisier and psychologist Marisa Pinto Coelho, published in 1977 in Rio de Janeiro . The work explores and describes the psychological effects of colonialism on the colonized and colonizers. This work, once banned by governments and the police, is considered one of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating studies ever written on colonial oppression. In it, the author dissects the minds of the oppressor and the oppressed and reveals truths about the colonial situation and its consequences, which are surprising for being as relevant in our conflict-ravaged world as they were in the 1950s. More than fifty years later, the text remains frighteningly topical.