Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up; Integrationists cast French as the ordering Logos over colonized anarchy (+13 more)

Related

• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.92)
• Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype. (similarity 0.92)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.90)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.89)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.86)
• “He talks like a white man” is Martinique’s highest praise for mastering French. (similarity 0.84)
• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview (similarity 0.84)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.84)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean writers reject dialect because their formation was wholly French (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.82)
• Mastering French makes the Antilles Negro whiter, earning honorary white status (similarity 0.82)
• Antillean students in Paris face a forced choice between white universality and dialect solidarity (similarity 0.82)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.81)
• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills #exemplifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84
• Antillean writers reject dialect because their formation was wholly French #corroborates (0.60)
• Antillean identity is contingent entirely on the white Other #expands (0.50)