Jamal Awil

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Antillean migrants use dialect to signal continuity. [fact]

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.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 140