Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself

Evidence

Mayotte loves a white man to whom she submits in everything. He is her lord. She asks nothing, demands nothing, except a bit of whiteness in her life. When she tries to determine in her own mind whether the man is handsome or ugly, she writes, “All I know is that he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin, and that I loved him.” It is not difficult to see that a rearrangement of these elements in their proper hierarchy would produce something of this order: “I loved him because he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin.” We who come from the Antilles know one thing only too well: Blue eyes, the people say, frighten the Negro. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s purpose on the psychology of colonial subjects: love of the colonizer’s features (blue eyes, blond hair) as a marker of whiteness worship. — connects to: The Uncle Remus stories encode simultaneous white love-seeking and hatred of blacks; The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man; Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love (+6 more)

Related

• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.93)
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love (similarity 0.90)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.87)
• The Uncle Remus stories encode simultaneous white love-seeking and hatred of blacks (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.86)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.82)
• The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge (similarity 0.79)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion #exemplifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.65)
• Whiteness links beauty with citizenship and uncontested belonging. #expands (0.50)