The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face

Evidence

16. More especially, they become aware that the line of self-esteem that they had chosen should be inverted. We have seen in fact that the Antillean who goes to France pictures this journey as the final stage of his personality. Quite literally I can say without any risk of error that the Antillean who goes to France in order to convince himself that he is white will find his real face there. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 986

Categorization

• XREF: Core evidence for the reader’s contrast between locally vs externally educated colonial subjects and their psychological trajectories. — connects to: The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal; Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness.; Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (+12 more)

Related

• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.95)
• Arriving in France transforms the colonized black man because France represents civilization itself. (similarity 0.93)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.90)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.87)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.86)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood (similarity 0.86)
• Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood (similarity 0.86)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.86)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean men returning from France are radically, almost biologically, transformed in bearing. (similarity 0.85)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.85)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.85)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.84)
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves #expands (0.80)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #corroborates (0.75)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87
• Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 266
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• Fanon’s claims are scoped to Antillean blacks, not Africans #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 69