Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype.

Evidence

The Negro arriving in France will react against the myth of the R-eating man from Martinique. He will become aware of it, and he will really go to war against it. He will practice not only rolling his R but embroidering it. Furtively observing the slightest reactions of others, listening to his own speech, suspicious of his own tongue–a wretchedly lazy organ–he will lock himself into his room and read aloud for hours–desperately determined to learn diction. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly; Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them; Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84

Related

• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.95)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.92)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.86)
• French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills #expands (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84