Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself.

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home; Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing.; The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986 (+4 more)

Related

• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.93)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.93)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.91)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.90)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes (similarity 0.89)
• France’s authority over the black man rests on its intellectuals and institutions (similarity 0.85)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood (similarity 0.84)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.83)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.82)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood (similarity 0.82)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.82)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87
• The colonized seek French refinement as proof they have measured up to the culture #expands (0.70)
• France’s authority over the black man rests on its intellectuals and institutions #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 92