In postcolonial contexts and an increasingly transnational world, individuals accumulate various identities: identities attached to their parents' or grandparents’ origins, to the nation-state they grew up in, and to the country they may decide to migrate to. Interactionist social theories explore the negotiations and agency of individuals to claim an identity faced with the identity assigned by others. France and the United States have been often framed as the antithesis of one another in terms of racial thinking – one nation is officially colorblind, the other supposedly color-conscious. Using French migrants in the US as a case study where one’s identity assigned by others differs depending on the country, this research interrogates: How do French migrants in the United States interpret the US racial frame and their own ethno-racial identities? Drawing from interviews and Census walkthroughs with 16 migrants, this paper argues that French migrants in the US think of themselves as “racial intermediaries.” Their views of the American racial frame remain imbued in French discourse on color-blind egalitarianism. Yet their migration acts as a transformation because of new experiences of racialization and a welcomed affirmation of their ethnic identities in the US. They “release the blinders” on French racism, and for minority French individuals, this experience can lead to a new self-definition, adopting some of the languages of race. As other works have done, this study hence further reaffirms that French minorities are not color-blind and rather actively engage in ethno-racial talk to make sense of their negotiated identities.