Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes

Evidence

It would be equally interesting–and there are plenty of subjects for the study–to investigate the modifications of body fluids that occur in Negroes when they arrive in France. Or simply to study through tests the psychic changes both before they leave home and after they have spent a month in France. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fanon proposes empirical studies of psychic change upon arrival in France — a research design worth chasing.
• SEED: An angle: testing the measurable physiological markers of colonial transit between periphery and metropole.
• XREF: connects to: Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness.; Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home; French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly (+8 more)

Related

• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.91)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.89)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.88)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.83)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.83)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.81)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior #expands (0.70)