A few French phrases in Martinican education shape 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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A few classroom phrases form the young Antillean’s entire worldview.; Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness; The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (+4 more)

Related

• A few classroom phrases form the young Antillean’s entire worldview. (similarity 0.97)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.85)
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment (similarity 0.85)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.84)
• No Antillean could think of himself as a Negro until Aimé Césaire appeared (similarity 0.84)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.84)
• In the Antilles, perception of people always occurs in white terms (similarity 0.83)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.82)
• “He talks like a white man” is Martinique’s highest praise for mastering French. (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.82)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.82)
• Antillean students in Paris face a forced choice between white universality and dialect solidarity (similarity 0.81)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves #expands (0.80)
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995