Europeans regarded the 20th century with a great deal of optimism, believing that they would continue to dominate the globe culturally, economically and technologically. However, any hope for peaceful political processes was soon dismissed, as the early decades of this new century became the bloodiest, riddled with wars and revolutions. As the oppressed white working classes of Europe rose up against their elite administrators, similarly many minority groups began to struggle for freedom. It was …showed first 75 words of 2168 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2168 total…that these groups need to claim freedom collectively and obtain their own identity through personal space, they disagree greatly on the methods by which these things should be obtained. Fanon takes the extreme stance of advocating violence, while Woolf adopts the principle of calm, objectivity. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1961. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1928.