Black professional achievement did not shield women from being labeled whores.

Evidence

When black people urged the white public to aid them in their struggles to protect black womanhood, their appeals fell on deaf ears. So pervasive was the tendency of whites to regard all black women as sexually loose and unworthy of respect that their achievements were ignored. Even if an individual black female became a lawyer, doctor, or teacher, she was likely to be labeled a whore or prostitute by whites. All black women, irrespective of their circumstances, were lumped into the category of available sex objects. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 184

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713; Adopting feminist rhetoric did not free white feminists from sexist-racist attitudes. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 39; Sexist-racist socialization convinced black women their interests were not worth fighting for. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 40

Related

• Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness (similarity 0.81)
• Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race (similarity 0.80)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.80)
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status (similarity 0.80)
• Adopting feminist rhetoric did not free white feminists from sexist-racist attitudes. (similarity 0.80)
• Negative stereotypes block Black women from developing positive self-concepts (similarity 0.79)
• White writers fabricated black women’s unchastity to justify racial segregation. (similarity 0.79)
• Black leaders resist acknowledging black male sexism to avoid complicating anti-racist efforts. (similarity 0.79)
• Black women have always been free from femininity’s protective constraints. (similarity 0.79)
• Labeling black women as sexual savages enabled their rapes by denying their humanity. (similarity 0.79)
• The women-and-blacks analogy erased black women by equating women with whites (similarity 0.79)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.79)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.79)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.78)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713
• Adopting feminist rhetoric did not free white feminists from sexist-racist attitudes. #complicates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 39
• Sexist-racist socialization convinced black women their interests were not worth fighting for. #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 40