Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood

Evidence

Talking recently with several Antilleans, I found that the dominant concern among those arriving in France was to go to bed with a white woman. As soon as their ships docked in Le Havre, they were off to the houses. Once this ritual of initiation into “authentic” manhood had been fulfilled, they took the train for Paris. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 266

Categorization

• XREF: Connects external education/crossing to France with the sexual-racial initiation, relevant to the reader’s two-narrative analysis. — connects to: Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness.; Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood; The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986 (+2 more)

Related

• Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood (similarity 0.95)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.88)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.86)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.84)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.81)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.81)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans claim superiority over Africans by being closer to the white man. (similarity 0.80)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans perceive their fellows through a white frame of reference #exemplifies (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• The colonized seek French refinement as proof they have measured up to the culture #exemplifies (0.60)