A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class
Evidence
Something remarkable must have happened on the day when the white man declared his love to the mulatto. There was recognition, incorporation into a group that had seemed hermetic. The psychological minus-value, this feeling of insignificance and its corollary, the impossibility of reaching the light, totally vanished. From one day to the next, the mulatto went from the class of slaves to that of masters. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 207
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s psychoanalytic interest and to Fanon’s overarching thesis of the colonial subject’s dependency on white recognition. — connects to: Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man; White male recognition instantly dissolves the mulatto’s felt inferiority