Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning from France radically transforms the Antilles Negro’s identity and local status; Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots; Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 140 (+4 more)

Related

• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.93)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.90)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.88)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes (similarity 0.88)
• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged (similarity 0.86)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.85)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.85)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.84)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.79)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. #corroborates (0.85)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails #complicates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 140
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face #complicates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. #expands (0.70)