Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness.

Evidence

16. More especially, they become aware that the line of self-esteem that they had chosen should be inverted. We have seen in fact that the Antillean who goes to France pictures this journey as the final stage of his personality. Quite literally I can say without any risk of error that the Antillean who goes to France in order to convince himself that he is white will find his real face there. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It may perhaps be objected that if the white man is subject to the elaboration of the imago of his peer, an analogous phenomenon should occur in the Antillean, visual perception being the sketch for such an elaboration. But to say this is to forget that in the Antilles perception always occurs on the level of the imaginary. It is in white terms that one perceives one’s fellows. People will say of someone, for instance, that he is “very black”; there is nothing surprising, within a family, in hearing a mother remark that “X is the blackest of my children”–it means that X is the least white. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; Returning from France radically transforms the Antilles Negro’s identity and local status; The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986 (+14 more)

Related

• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.95)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.91)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.89)
• Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood (similarity 0.89)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.88)
• Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood (similarity 0.88)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.88)
• In the Antilles, perception of people always occurs in white terms (similarity 0.88)
• Antilleans claim superiority over Africans by being closer to the white man. (similarity 0.87)
• Antillean identity is contingent entirely on the white Other (similarity 0.85)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.85)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.85)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.84)
• Antilleans perceive their fellows through a white frame of reference (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face #corroborates (1.00) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves #corroborates (0.75)
• Blackness itself becomes a spectacle judged against whiteness in Martinique #expands (0.70)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. #corroborates (0.70)
• Antilleans perceive their fellows through a white frame of reference #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 266
• Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood #expands (0.60)
• Antilleans claim superiority over Africans by being closer to the white man. #corroborates (0.60)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin #contradicts (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 672
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87