The returned Negro’s adopted superiority is punished by his community’s unforgiving scrutiny

Evidence

There is the newcomer, then. He no longer understands the dialect, he talks about the Opera, which he may never have seen except from a distance, but above all he adopts a critical attitude toward his compatriots. Confronted with the most trivial occurrence, he becomes an oracle. He is the one who knows. He betrays himself in his speech. … They meet and talk. And if the newcomer soon gets the floor, it is because they were waiting for him. First of all to observe his manner: The slightest departure is seized on, picked apart, and in less than forty-eight hours it has been retailed all over Fort-de-France. There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard. Let him say, for instance, “It was not my good fortune, when in France, to observe mounted policemen,” and he is done for. Only one choice remains to him: throw off his “Parisianism” or die of ridicule. For there is also no forgetting: When he marries, his wife will be aware that she is marrying a joke, and his children will have a legend to face and to live down. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 94

Categorization

• XREF: Gives concrete sociological detail on how the externally-educated colonial subject’s French-ness is received and policed — central to the reader’s two-narratives question. — connects to: Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots; The community punishes the returnee’s Parisian pretension with unforgiving ridicule.

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• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.95)
• The community punishes the returnee’s Parisian pretension with unforgiving ridicule. (similarity 0.91)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.83)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.80)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.79)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.78)