As long as he remains among his own people, the little black follows very nearly the same course as the little white. But if he goes to Europe, he will have to reappraise his lot. For the Negro in France, which is his country, will feel different from other people. One can hear the glib remark: The Negro makes himself inferior. But the truth is that he is made inferior. The young Antillean is a Frenchman called upon constantly to live with white compatriots. Now, the Antillean family has for all practical purposes no connection with the national–that is, the French, or European–structure. The Antillean has therefore to choose between his family and European society; in other words, the individual who climbs up into society –white and civilized–tends to reject his family–black and savage–on the plane of imagination, in accord with the childhood Erlebnisse that we discussed earlier.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 575