Black families reject interracial pairings from dignity concerns, not whitening critiques

Evidence

In some cases, black or mulatto families also rejected the interracial pairing of their children. Aliana [a white woman] felt that Rafael’s family [who was black] didn’t treat her well, “because they said that I would always humiliate their son, and that my family would always humiliate him.” … Luis [a black man] commented that, in general, his family got along well with Irena [a white woman]. However, he noted that at the start his mother had had reservations about the relationship. “My mother said that when a black man is with a white woman, the black man makes a fool of himself. He is very jealous and is always running after the white girl, and so he lowers himself to be with her.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3629

Categorization

• CANDY: A vivid verbatim quote — a Cuban mother’s warning that a black man with a white woman ‘lowers himself’ — reads almost like dialogue from a novel and makes a punchy anecdote.