Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails

Evidence

In every country of the world there are climbers, “the ones who forget who they are,” and, in contrast to them, “the ones who remember where they came from.” The Antilles Negro who goes home from France expresses himself in dialect if he wants to make it plain that nothing has changed. One can feel this at the dock where his family and his friends are waiting for him. Waiting for him not only because he is physically arriving, but in the sense of waiting for the chance to strike back. They need a minute or two in order to make their diagnosis. If the voyager tells his acquaintances, “I am so happy to be back with you. Good Lord, it is hot in this country, I shall certainly not be able to endure it very long,” they know: A European has got off the ship. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 140

Categorization

• XREF: The dock-scene ‘diagnosis’ is precisely the psychoanalysis of the colonial subject’s reception that the reader sought. — connects to: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged; The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (+7 more)

Related

• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged (similarity 0.92)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.88)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.85)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.84)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.83)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.83)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.83)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.82)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.80)
• Recognition by a European alone conferred racial status in the Indies (similarity 0.80)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Mastering French makes the Antilles Negro whiter, earning honorary white status #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 148
• The colonized seek French refinement as proof they have measured up to the culture #expands (0.60)
• Colonial officials proposed legal recognition of European status based on visible racial traits #corroborates (0.55)
• Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them #qualifies (0.50)
• Assimile status defined which Africans fell under French court jurisdiction #complicates (0.40)