In the chapter, "Frantz Fanon’s Toulon", of the book, "Afropean: Notes from Black Europe", author Johny Pitts presents the overt racism from white, metropolitan French citizens experienced by many of the French colonial subjects who fought in the war. Pitts describes the incessant nature of this discrimination from the onset of the colonial subjects’ service. Even after leaving Martinique as a dissenter of the Vichy government to fight in the war effort, Fanon and his fellow Black volunteers were repeatedly taunted by white volunteers while on the boat travelling to France. Pitts discusses how this nonacceptance of the Black colonial soldiers in French metropolitan society was magnified by encounters with civilians. In his book, "Black Skin, White Masks", Fanon describes the painful experience of going to numerous dances held in Toulon and seeing the visible fear the white French women felt when approached by him, despite wearing the liberation army’s uniforms, to the point that the women would dance with soldiers from the Italian fascist army instead. Fanon also chronicles his encounter with a young, white French boy who calls out to his mom in terror upon laying eyes on a Black man.