Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills

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

Categorization

• XREF: This compulsive self-correction is the psychological effect of the stereotype — relevant to the reader’s analysis of how external contact distorts self-image. — connects to: Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype.; Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect; Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (+1 more)

Related

• Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype. (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 0.90)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.80)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.80)
• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged (similarity 0.80)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.80)
• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview (similarity 0.79)
• Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them (similarity 0.79)
• “He talks like a white man” is Martinique’s highest praise for mastering French. (similarity 0.79)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.79)
• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.78)
• The returned Negro’s adopted superiority is punished by his community’s unforgiving scrutiny (similarity 0.78)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them #corroborates (0.55)