Camptown sexual exploitation results from deliberate human decisions, not natural male behavior.

Evidence

The argument that black men have been emasculated because they were not always able to assume the patriarchal role of provider is based on the assumption that black men feel that they should provide for their families and therefore feel unmanned or guilty if they cannot do so. Yet such an assumption does not appear to be based on actual fact. In many homes, black men who are employed are not eager to give money to wives and children and are even resentful that they are expected to share hard-earned low wages with others. Concurrently, despite the fact that the American capitalist economic structure forces many black men to be unemployed, there are some black men who would rather not work “shit” jobs with endless hassles and little monetary reward if they can survive without them; these men do not have doubts about their masculinity. To many of them a low paying menial job is more an attack on their masculinity than no job at all. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 225 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

M. Salomon’s study informs us that he is a physician. He should be wary of those literary points of view that are unscientific. The Japanese and the Chinese are ten times more prolific than the Negro: Does that make them sensual? And in addition, M. Salomon, I have a confession to make to you: I have never been able, without revulsion, to hear a man say of another man: “He is so sensuall” I do not know what the sensuality of a man is. Imagine a woman saying of another woman: “She’s so terribly desirable–she’s darling… .” The Negro, M. Salomon, gives off no aura of sensuality either through his skin or through his hair. It is just that over a series of long days and long nights the image of the biological-sexual-sensual-genital-nigger has imposed itself on you and you do not know how to get free of it. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 225; Perceived Negro sensuality is a cultural imposition, not an inherent quality; Men cannot be collective authors of their actions because circumstances decentre them (+6 more)

Related

• The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct (similarity 0.83)
• Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct #corroborates (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 225
• Perceived Negro sensuality is a cultural imposition, not an inherent quality #corroborates (0.60)
• Alleged Negro sensuality is a culturally imposed stereotype, not a physical attribute. #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 713
• Men cannot be collective authors of their actions because circumstances decentre them #corroborates (0.55)