Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen

Evidence

Who can describe the desperation of the little Hottentots whose parents, in the hope of making real Frenchmen of them, transplant them to France too early? From one day to the next they are locked into boarding schools, these free, joyful children, “for your own good,” as their weeping parents tell them. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 273

Categorization

• XREF: This is the exact contrast the reader is analyzing: locally educated versus externally educated colonial subjects. — connects to: French wives overseas were tasked with reproducing French civilization at home; Early colonial education policy explicitly barred Africans from becoming French citizens; Colonial curricula taught the effects of French power rather than French history proper (+5 more)

Related

• French wives overseas were tasked with reproducing French civilization at home (similarity 0.90)
• West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial assimilation policy aimed to remake Africans into black-skinned Frenchmen (similarity 0.79)
• France’s authority over the black man rests on its intellectuals and institutions (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial education aimed to create a compliant middle class to support European colonization #expands (0.80)
• Early colonial education policy explicitly barred Africans from becoming French citizens #contradicts (0.75)
• The colonized seek French refinement as proof they have measured up to the culture #expands (0.70)
• Colonial curricula taught the effects of French power rather than French history proper #expands (0.65)
• White Frenchmen denied black men any share in their cultural tradition #contradicts (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 441