The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society

Evidence

What are the terms of this problem? Jean Veneuse is a Negro. Born in the Antilles, he has lived in Bordeaux for years; so he is a European. But he is black; so he is a Negro. There is the conflict. He does not understand his own race, and the whites do not understand him. And, he observes, “The Europeans in general and the French in particular, not satisfied with simply ignoring the Negro of the colonies, repudiate the one whom they have shaped into their own image.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What is true is that under normal conditions, an interaction must exist between the family and society at large. The home is the basis of the truth of society, but society authenticates and legitimizes the family. The colonial structure is the very negation of this reciprocal justification. The Algerian woman, in imposing such a restriction on herself, in choosing a form of existence limited in scope, was deepening her consciousness of struggle and preparing for combat. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged; Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230; The Ethical Policy’s rhetoric of native welfare excluded mixed-race Europeans from its scope (+1 more)

Related

• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.86)
• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.82)
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race (similarity 0.82)
• Europeans repudiate the colonial educated in their own image while ignoring his origins (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society (similarity 0.82)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.81)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.80)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.80)
• Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar (similarity 0.80)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean students in Paris face a forced choice between white universality and dialect solidarity (similarity 0.79)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.79)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.79)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• External education makes the colonial subject an outsider to both races #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 232
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230
• The Ethical Policy’s rhetoric of native welfare excluded mixed-race Europeans from its scope #qualifies (0.40)