This chapter situates Wright’s writings on the decolonizing world—especially White Man, Listen! and The Color Curtain —in the context of postcolonial thought. Beginning with his speech at the First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956, it focuses on Wright’s relation to and divergence from the Négritude movement (Senghor, Césaire) as well as other traditions of postcolonial thought, such as the writings of Franz Fanon. It explores Wright’s efforts to develop a perspective from which to interpret the unprecedented historical force of decolonization, and it examines in particular how Wright sought to link—through the frame of modernity—his vantage point as a radical black intellectual in the United States with an emergent global postcolonial and anticolonial intellectual tradition.