Creolite movements rejected African roots while embracing European cultural identity

Evidence

In these expressions of creolite, what clearly emerges is the rejection of Africa and the embrace of Europe. This pattern of rejection and embrace is firmly implanted in the nationalist aspirations of the Caribbean. It is more convincingly evident in the competing versions of nationalist expression in the French West Indies. Rejection of Africa and embrace of Europe are not so obvious in the Anglophone versions. They became camouflaged in the racial challenge to the authorial power of Britain in the campaign for independence. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3234

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Edward Said’s critique of nativism in Culture and Imperialism, and with the critique that anticolonial identity can replace one illusion with another.
• QUESTION: Why exactly did Cesaire’s embrace of department status and French party politics strike Creolistes as hypocritical? Worth chasing the specific contradictions.