Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners

Evidence

We are thus put on notice that what Mayotte wants is a kind of lactification. For, in a word, the race must be whitened; every woman in Martinique knows this, says it, repeats it. Whiten the race, save the race, but not in the sense that one might think: not “preserve the uniqueness of that part of the world in which they grew up,” but make sure that it will be white. … It is always essential to avoid falling back into the pit of niggerhood, and every woman in the Antilles, whether in a casual flirtation or in a serious affair, is determined to select the least black of the men. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘lactification’ as the term for the race-whitening drive Fanon analyzes.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s psychoanalysis of colonial subjects resenting both educated narratives. — connects to: Antillean women pursue lactification to bleach the race itself, not preserve it; Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage; The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (+13 more)

Related

• Antillean women pursue lactification to bleach the race itself, not preserve it (similarity 0.91)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.87)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean folklore and mate-choice rules enforce avoidance of the darkest skin (similarity 0.86)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.86)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.86)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.85)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love (similarity 0.84)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.83)
• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.82)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized women historically sought whiteness as beauty and virtue (similarity 0.81)
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.81)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 196
• The Negress seeks white admittance out of felt inferiority via affective erethism #expands (0.70)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.60)
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #expands (0.60)
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love #expands (0.50)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 213
• Whiteness links beauty with citizenship and uncontested belonging. #complicates (0.30)