Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives; White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 592; Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives (similarity 0.90)
• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge (similarity 0.86)
• White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level (similarity 0.84)
• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them (similarity 0.84)
• Sexual phenomena are central to understanding racial relations individually (similarity 0.79)
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. (similarity 0.79)
• Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex (similarity 0.79)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.79)
• Sexual phenomena are central to understanding racial experience psychoanalytically (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Institutionalized sexism protected black male sexuality while legitimizing black female assault #expands (0.65) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 66
• Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions #expands (0.55)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #qualifies (0.40)