 He recounts that he himself faced many admonitions as a child for using Creole French instead of "real French," or "French French," that is, "white" French.Ultimately, he concludes that "mastery of language [of the white/colonizer] for the sake of recognition "as white" reflects a dependency that subordinates the black's humanity".The Negro and Language

Chapter 1 of Black Skin, White Masks is entitled “The Negro and Language."