A few classroom phrases form the young Antillean’s entire worldview.

Evidence

9. One always sees a smile when one reports this aspect of education in Martinique. The smile comes because the comicality of the thing is obvious, but no one pursues it to its later consequences. Yet these are the important aspects, because three or four such phrases are the basis on which the young Antillean works out his view of the world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France-educated Black women will transmit white-supremacist attitudes to Antillean schools.; A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness

Related

• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview (similarity 0.97)
• In the Antilles, perception of people always occurs in white terms (similarity 0.83)
• No Antillean could think of himself as a Negro until Aimé Césaire appeared (similarity 0.82)
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment (similarity 0.82)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.82)
• Fanon’s claims are scoped to Antillean blacks, not Africans (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.80)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.80)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.79)
• “He talks like a white man” is Martinique’s highest praise for mastering French. (similarity 0.79)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness #expands (0.70)