 The Antilles Negro who wants to be white will be the whiter as he gains greater mastery of the cultural tool that language is.Fanon concludes this theorizing by saying “Historically, it must be understood that the Negro wants to speak French because it is the key that can open doors which were still barred to him fifty years ago.In the Antilles Negro who comes within this study we find a quest for subtleties, for refinements of language—so many further means of proving to himself that he has measured up to the culture.”

The Fact of Blackness

Chapter 5 of Black Skin, White Masks is entitled “The Fact of Blackness."