Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives

Evidence

In the case of black women and white men, inter-racial sex was both encouraged and condoned as long as it did not lead to marriage. By perpetuating the myth that all black women were incapable of fidelity and sexually loose, whites hoped to so devalue them that no white man would marry a black woman. After manumission, white men who treated black women with respect or sought to integrate a black female into respectable white society were persecuted and ostracized. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193 (#expands, via linked claim)

Since he is the master and more simply the male, the white man can allow himself the luxury of sleeping with many women. This is true in every country and especially in colonies. But when a white woman accepts a black man there is automatically a romantic aspect. It is a giving, not a seizing. In the colonies, in fact, even though there is little marriage or actual sustained cohabitation between whites and blacks, the number of hybrids is amazing. This is because the white men often sleep with their black servants. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 902 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 902; White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation.; White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193 (+2 more)

Related

• Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic (similarity 0.90)
• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them (similarity 0.88)
• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge (similarity 0.80)
• Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex (similarity 0.79)
• White wives sometimes encouraged their husbands to take black mistresses. (similarity 0.79)
• Nineteenth-century prosperity shifted white women’s image from temptress to pure goddess (similarity 0.79)
• Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships. (similarity 0.79)
• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193
• Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 902
• White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation. #corroborates (0.50)
• Nineteenth-century prosperity shifted white women’s image from temptress to pure goddess #qualifies (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 95